The battle continues
In March of this year 2019, Spotify filed a formal complaint with the European Commission in which it complained about some practices of AppleSpecifically, accused them of monopoly for charging 30% of subscriptions carried out through iOS devices and for preventing access to certain functions such as the integration of Siri with Spotify (available from iOS 13).
After a few months, in the month of May Apple answered.And he did it with quite emphatic His arguments were simple: that Spotify has grown a lot using the App Store and now you want to get the same conditions as if it were a free app; that Apple does not limit developer options; and that Spotify complains about the 30% commission but doesn't want to pay what was agreed and appropriate to composers
Some data provided by Apple to the European Commission has been made public
This was roughly what Apple had answered. But it was not known what data he had provided. Until now that different media have made it public. And, apparently, Spotify deliberately attached incorrect data and documents to its complaint to the European Commission.
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The data provided by Apple is that, out of more than 100 million Spotify users, Apple has only applied the commission to 0.68% of them.That is, 680,000 users. Being only and, obviously, those who have a Premium plan and who subscribed from iOS
In addition, it is mentioned that the commission was not 30%, but 15% applicable for seniority. And not only that, but when said commission was charged it was from 2014 to 2016, since 2016 was when Spotify stopped allowing new subscriptions from iOS devices.
What do you think of this new data that comes to light two months after Apple's response? If this data is true, and if Spotify was aware of providing false data and reports, the streaming music company may not be in the best possible position.
