Addressing Spotify’s Claims

Re:Addressing Spotify’s Claims by lowtolerance on Friday March 15, 2019 @09:14AM (#19399350)

Apple is not "actively trying to prevent" people from managing their Spotify, Netflix et al subscriptions outside of their respective iOS apps, what are you talking about?

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Re:Addressing Spotify’s Claims by ahmedalsudani on Friday March 15, 2019 @03:28PM (#19403306)

The app literally can't send you to the Web page so you can sign up there. It has to say something vague for Apple to approve it for publishing. Here's an example from Kobo [1]. They apparently can't even tell you the domain name.

[1] http://imgs.fyi/img/7hut.png

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Re:Addressing Spotify’s Claims by crumpets on Saturday March 16, 2019 @03:11PM (#19409560)

And how does that actively prevent people from using Spotify on their desktop?

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Re:Addressing Spotify’s Claims by juiyout on Sunday March 17, 2019 @03:21PM (#19415905)

Uh, Apple rejects your app if your app talks about being able to subscribe/upgrade via means other than IAP (includes desktop)

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