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AF_Hitt said:

aaargh! said:

To be fair, Spotify has little choice but to use the App Store, it's not as if you can distribute iOS apps to consumers in any other way. Apple would have a point if Spotify could just put the IPA up on their website for users to download, but they can't. 

You’re missing the point. Simply using the App Store does not make Apple take 30% of Spotify’s revenue. The only portion of revenue Apple takes is of in-app purchases for Premium, and that drops to 15% after a year. Spotify could easily go the Netflix, Hulu, etc. route and simply not offer in-app purchases, instead relying on customers to be smart enough to open up Safari and sign up there. Netflix, Hulu, all the streaming live tv platforms, Amazon, etc. don’t seem to struggle with this, yet Spotify can’t seem to figure it out. Desperate move from a desperate company.

Thanks for your point, my understanding has been isn't someone able to just go online to Spotify's website and create a paid account there and then you just log into your account on the app on your iPhone bypassing the Apple tax? Or am I not understanding the terms correctly? If that's correct then I don't see Spotify's complaint, but again maybe I don't understand the terms? I know I signed up for Acorntv on the web for $5/month whereas if I had signed up for Acorntv on my Apple tv the cost was $7/month and then I went to the app on my Apple tv logged into my account and was only paying $5/month for the Acorntv subscription service.

I think to put this in perspective the first mobile cell phone cost $3995 that was the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X and all it did was make phone calls. We now have a pocket computer that does way beyond what I could do on my Apple ll cx, which cost me $3000 in 1989. I didn’t get the chance to decide between the 8 plus and the X because my 5s got stolen before the X was released so I got the 8 plus. The 8 plus is the best cellphone I’ve ever owned and I look forward to getting an X or the next version of the X in the future.