Spotify will start displaying in-app pricing info for iPhone customers within the European Union beginning right now, following a yearslong legal battle against Apple. In an update to an old blog post, Spotify says that EU iPhone customers will now see issues like promotional provides 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 flexibility to click on a hyperlink to make these purchases from outdoors the Apple App Retailer. Spotify says it’s opting into the “music streaming services entitlement” that Apple launched after being served a €1.84 billion (about $2 billion) EU antitrust fine in March for “abusing its dominant place” in music streaming, reasonably than accepting the complicated new developer terms Apple outlined last week. In contrast to the entitlement, the latter would permit EU builders to hyperlink to exterior cost choices with Apple taking a minimize of off-platform gross sales. Spotify clearly doesn’t need to do this, saying that Apple is demanding “unlawful and predatory taxes.”