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Re:Spotify Paid $10B to the Music Industry in 2024, $1B More... by jsnell on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @11:58AM (#42935146)
> This is not true. Spotify hasn’t allowed in app purchases of subscriptions in almost a decade.

That is not true either. Spotify's Android app allows purchasing Premium in-app, with Spotify as a payment provider. I believe it's also the case that Apple Music on Android has in-app purchases, with Apple as the payment provider.

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Re:Spotify Paid $10B to the Music Industry in 2024, $1B More... by scarface_74 on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:04PM (#42935241)
That’s true for Android. And Google only takes a 4% cut when using Google payments and a 0% cut when using Spotify. But Spotify doesn’t pay Google 30%

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23969690/google-spotify-...

So that’s still not a cause for their financial issues.

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