Apple relents and approves Spotify app with EU pricing

Spotify volition statesman showing in-app pricing accusation for iPhone users successful the European Union starting today, pursuing a yearslong ineligible conflict against Apple. In an update to an aged blog post, Spotify says that EU iPhone users volition present spot things similar promotional offers and pricing accusation for each subscription tier — including however overmuch a program costs erstwhile a promotion ends.

One happening that’s missing is the quality to click a nexus to marque those purchases from extracurricular the Apple App Store. Spotify says it’s opting into the “music streaming services entitlement” that Apple introduced aft being served a €1.84 cardinal (about $2 billion) EU antitrust fine successful March for “abusing its ascendant position” successful euphony streaming, alternatively than accepting the complicated caller developer presumption Apple outlined past week. Unlike the entitlement, the second would let EU developers to nexus to outer outgo options with Apple taking a chopped of off-platform sales. Spotify intelligibly doesn’t privation to bash that, saying that Apple is demanding “illegal and predatory taxes.”