If we pay this tax, it would force us to artificially inflate the price of our Premium membership well above the price of Apple Music. Apple requires that Spotify and other digital services pay a 30% tax on purchases made through Apple’s payment system, including upgrading from our Free to our Premium service. To illustrate what I mean, let me share a few examples. But in Apple’s case, they continue to give themselves an unfair advantage at every turn.

Apple is both the owner of the iOS platform and the App Store-and a competitor to services like Spotify.

From the post:Īpple operates a platform that, for over a billion people around the world, is the gateway to the internet. In the blog post, Ek claims that, as an operator of both the distribution platform (the App Store) and a participant in the mobile app ecosystem as a publisher of apps like Apple Music, Apple enjoys an unfair advantage against companies that develop apps similar to those that come pre-installed on Apple hardware. Last week, Daniel Ek, the CEO of Spotify, published a blog post in which he revealed that the company has filed an antitrust complaint about Apple with the European Commission.

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