Safari no longer supported by Spotify

Re:Safari no longer supported by Spotify by coldtea on Sunday September 17, 2017 @12:04PM (#15270230)

>Desktop Safari usage is ~2%[1], so I'd imagine this is an attempt by Spotify to flex some muscle. Since usage is so small, Spotify has the power.

What if Apple also "flexed some muscle" and dropped the iOS Spotify app from the App Store?

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Re:Safari no longer supported by Spotify by laurentdc on Sunday September 17, 2017 @12:27PM (#15270351)

It would only result in bad PR for both companies, considering it's a service used by 140M people, with 60M paying for it (https://press.spotify.com/us/about/)

Also, since the app doesn't violate any ToS, I'm not sure if there's any ground for removal (I doubt they can just pull it for no reason without risking a lawsuit)

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Re:Safari no longer supported by Spotify by coldtea on Sunday September 17, 2017 @06:47PM (#15272131)

The ToS is vague enough that they could. Besides it compete's with Apple's own Apple Music, and duplicate core functionality has been a reason to oust apps in the past.

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