Spotify and Apple are staring each other down while flipping the bird
The companies are at it again, and this time it’s not only bothersome to the businesses themselves, but to the end consumer.
Going to the next level in an ongoing spat over Apple’s subscription rules, it would appear that Apple
has rejected Spotify’s latest update to its app in late May, citing business model issues. Shortly before that, Spotify
turned off billing within the Spotify iOS app altogether, cutting off free users ability to upgrade and even shutting off existing premium mobile users payments, forcing online upgrades. With it, Spotify cut off Apple’s full source of revenue from the Spotify service.