Spotify will start displaying in-app pricing info for iPhone customers within the European Union beginning right now, following a yearslong authorized battle in opposition to Apple. In an replace to an outdated weblog publish, Spotify says that EU iPhone customers will now see issues like promotional presents and pricing info for every subscription tier — together with how a lot a plan prices as soon as a promotion ends.
One factor that’s lacking is the power to click on a hyperlink to make these purchases from outdoors the Apple App Retailer. Spotify says it’s opting into the “music streaming providers entitlement” that Apple launched after being served a €1.84 billion (about $2 billion) EU antitrust fantastic in March for “abusing its dominant place” in music streaming, reasonably than accepting the difficult new developer phrases Apple outlined final week. Not like the entitlement, the latter would enable EU builders to hyperlink to exterior cost choices with Apple taking a lower of off-platform gross sales. Spotify clearly doesn’t wish to do this, saying that Apple is demanding “unlawful and predatory taxes.”
