The affair caused a stir last year. After complaining for years about anti-competitive practices on the part of Apple in the streaming market, Spotify finallyfile a complaintto the European Commission. The company particularly criticizes the Cupertino firmto encourage the choice of your own applicationsto the detriment of others. The service accompanied its action with a communication campaign aimed at the general public through the pageTimetoplayfaire.com.
“We still have many steps to take”
More than a year later, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek returned to the consequences of this offensive. He says he expects Apple to open up more in the long term. The leader particularly insisted on the progress made since last year: “We are very pleased to finally be able to use Siri to implement voice assistance and to also be able to develop products for Apple TV and Apple Watch, which we were not able to do until very recently.»
However, according to him, it remainsa lot to achieve: «It's a step in the right direction, but we still have many, many steps to take».
Among these main steps, we most likely find at the top of the list the famous 30% tax levied by Apple for subscriptions made on the App Store. She would force Spotifyto sell your subscription more expensiveif it wants to obtain the same margin as Apple, a practice considered unfair.
The confrontation therefore continues to rage in the very strategic sector of music streaming.Spotify already has more than130 million paying subscribersand according to a recent study, Apple Music still remainsworld number 2.
