Spotify says Apple won’t approve a new version of its app because it doesn’t want competition for Apple Music – Recode

http://www.recode.net/2016/6/30/12067578/spotify-apple-app-store-rejection

In a letter sent this week to Apple’s top lawyer, Spotify says Apple is “causing grave harm to Spotify and its customers” by rejecting an update to Spotify’s iOS app.

The letter says Apple turned down a new version of the app while citing “business model rules” and demanded that Spotify use Apple’s billing system if “Spotify wants to use the app to acquire new customers and sell subscriptions.”
una app sull’app store, deve usare i sistemi di pagamento di apple (lasciandogli giu’ il 30%)

“This latest episode raises serious concerns under both U.S. and EU competition law,” Gutierrez wrote. “It continues a troubling pattern of behavior by Apple to exclude and diminish the competitiveness of Spotify on iOS and as a rival to Apple Music, particularly when seen against the backdrop of Apple’s previous anticompetitive conduct aimed at Spotify … we cannot stand by as Apple uses the App Store approval process as a weapon to harm competitors.”

For the past year, Spotify has argued publicly, and to various regulators in the U.S. and Europe, that Apple’s subscription policies effectively punish third-party music services that use Apple’s platform, while boosting Apple Music, the home-grown service it launched in June 2015.

qui il caso per Apple è complicato dal fatto che spotify è un concorrente di un servizio apple, sicchè oltre a non avere il costo, apple impone una tariffa ai concorrenti.

Apple doesn’t require subscription services to use its iTunes billing service, but it doesn’t allow them to use an alternate payment system within the app, as Google does. Apple charges a monthly fee of up to 30 percent for those that do use its billing system — and it doesn’t want app makers to use the apps to promote alternate subscription options outside the apps. (And, of course, app makers like Spotify can’t distribute their apps onto iPhones outside of Apple’s store.)

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