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I don't know about their complaints on their Time to Play Fair site.

1. 30%, good or bad? A lot of good arguments here either way. personally I tend to side with Apple on their right to charge it, but it would be interesting to see the real profit margin after all their expenses. 
2. Can't Spotify just lower the price on the monthly charges if they want to give people a deal? Or do they want to pick and choose between all their customers? If it's a pick and choose thing, I can kind of see where Apple may have an issue with this, charging some customers less than others. I believe users can gift in app purchases to others. Could Spotify just gift the users they want to target with free months of service if they want this? If that is against App Store rules, I can see where that should maybe change. 
3. Downloaded the app again just to check this out. As far as I can tell, the only reason users can't upgrade to premium is because they choose not to implement it. Probably because of 1, or more likely they wanted to make it a point on this list. This is their choice, not some bullshit rule by Apple. I know Apple doesn't allow them to put in a URL, but they can just say visit our site for more info?  HAHA! I just switched back to the app. Hit a full screen popup ad that opens up a link to Spotify Premium. Got it twice out of three switches to Spotify. Talk about cheesy, and annoying. 
4. Seriously? No one can take that vague explantation seriously. I think Netflix has updated their app thee times in the last four days. Give us some specifics.
5. Siri, ok, Music isn't one of the SiriKit domains yet. On the other hand Spotify hasn't implemented Siri Shortcuts yet. That would give easy access to Starting, Stoping music and playing playlists. Difficult to take them seriously if they aren't even taking advantages of the features they are available. I use Siri Shortcuts on Outcast and it works great. As far as the watch, they ARE on the watch. Recent Playlists, currently playing and playlist info. They certainly could do more if they wanted. Outcast also allows me to see everything on my phone. And it auto syncs recently downloaded podcasts to the app. I'm sure Spotify could do something similar with often played playlists and rotating the music stored not he phone. 

I half expected agree with more of Spoify's points, but these seem pretty poorly thought out and Apple taking 30% on the first year of subscriptions might be the best point, especially considering that Apple halves that to 15% later. Apple would almost have to justify that supporting users in the first year requires enough support to justify the extra expense.

Considering Spotify is on Sonos, Alexa, Google Home, Denon, Bose and maybe others, it doesn't seem like the HomePod is exactly holding Spotify back, and Airplay still works fine.