Apple Finally Allows Spotify To Show Pricing Info To EU Users on iOS (techcrunch.com) 18
An anonymous reader shares a report: After much back and forth earlier this year, Spotify on Wednesday says it's now received approval from Apple to display pricing information in its iOS app for users in the EU. The company is not opting into Apple's new business rules under the EU's Digital Markets Act, but rather is taking advantage of new antitrust guidelines imposed by the EU specifically for music streaming apps. Apple in March was fined by European regulators nearly $2 billion for breaching antitrust rules in the market. Spotify and Apple have also gone back and forth over an update to Spotify's app that would allow the music streamer to share pricing information with EU users.
Now, Spotify says its app update has been approved, and it will be able to display the pricing for things like Spotify subscriptions and digital goods, including Spotify's more recently added collection of audiobooks. The latter includes the ability to show the pricing for subscription plans that include audiobook streaming, as well as "top off" hours users can buy to complete their audiobook listening and a la carte audiobook prices.
Now, Spotify says its app update has been approved, and it will be able to display the pricing for things like Spotify subscriptions and digital goods, including Spotify's more recently added collection of audiobooks. The latter includes the ability to show the pricing for subscription plans that include audiobook streaming, as well as "top off" hours users can buy to complete their audiobook listening and a la carte audiobook prices.
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Apple: a trillion dollar company with thousands of engineers housed in a multi-billion dollar campus; spends $0 on Q/A and testing of its software.
OMG (Score:1)
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I should not have to say this but its sarcasm
Good thing you pointed that out, because otherwise the Apple apologist fanbois would be all over you (not that it'll really stop them, just watch...).
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And in the EU they will be; not because of this, but from tearing down the App Store, eliminating the app and malware reviews, breaking application sandboxing, possibly forcing sneezy 3rd-party apps into kernel space like they did with windows and Cloudstrike, and all of the other protections that the EU has decreed to be "unfair". And if the EU makes them break the Secure Enclave and let any random fly-by-night outfit stick its nose in there... well, I hope you didn't *really* like those bank and credit c
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..... and here's one of those fanbois I warned about. [slashdot.org]
Exactly how, pray tell, is it "dangerous" for an app to have a link to a website, which is what the EU requires Apple let developers do now?
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Exactly how, pray tell, is it "dangerous" for an app to have a link to a website, which is what the EU requires Apple let developers do now?
It's not even a link, just a text reference to the 'Spotify website'; but you're right, parent is out of their mind for equating putting textual information with "eliminating the app and malware reviews, breaking application sandboxing, possibly forcing sneezy 3rd-party apps into kernel space...".
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"not because of this, but"
Reading comprehension is important, see. This particular attack is just a symptom of the EU's general malice towards the US tech industry.
And maybe you should have been keeping up with current events, Because:
1) Tearing down the App Store in favor of making the iPhone ecosystem an unregulated free-for-all of crapware, bloatware, and malware, with no security or controls, a la Cydia is EXACTLY what the EU has been working to do over these last few years. Yes, Apple has been resis
Can't say... (Score:2)
Can't say I didn't warn everyone [slashdot.org] about how the Apple apologist fanbois would keep coming out of the woodwork.
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And still, all you have is ad hominem, not any sort of point wrt/ the EU's hostility and attacks or the history of Cydia and side-loaded malware. Sorry, not sorry, but "If you disagree with me then you're a fanboi and you have no right to an opinion." doesn't cut the mustard.
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Word.
And the result will be (Score:2)
Protecting users (Score:3)
Oh no, will the users be ok? I thought Apple was doing all this 'protection' for the users so it must be really tough for the users to now have to handle all this horrible information.
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My thoughts and prayers are with apple and their worshippers at this dark time.
And clearly SvnLyrBrto [slashdot.org] needs lots of these!
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I don't use apple products or spotify, but what's the big deal? Are you not allowed to use an Apple platform to tell customers about your website? Are you not allowed to use an Apple platform to tell customers your prices?
That is precisely what control-freak Apple demands from all app developers; developers aren't allowed to "go around" Apple's strict rules about pricing.
If, as a result of using a developer's app, users end up somewhere that describes pricing for the app/service, and that "somewhere" isn't within Apple's store ecosystem, and the chain of events leading to that "somewhere" is traceable back to the user opening the app on an iDevice, Apple will demand that the developer either:
- remove all links (usually to a