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criddell on Jan 18, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple HomePod 2nd Generation

The reason is that Apple wants a cut of the Spotify subscription money when users sign up for Spotify on an iOS or iPadOS device. IMHO, it's a bad look for Apple. They should either get out of the music business or stop taking a cut of the money from apps that compete with Apple services.

winterqt on Jan 18, 2023 [–]

Do you have a source for that? As far as I'm aware, that has nothing to do with it -- e.g. Spotify is allowed on iOS as it is.

criddell on Jan 18, 2023 | [–]

I haven’t looked into it in a while. I guess it changed between 2019 and 2021.

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