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by ardit33 2297 days ago
Lol... sure.....

I worked for Spotify, and apple did all kind of hoopla to delay/deny the iOS updates....

My favorite one: If you did tap at one of the support/help tabs, it would open a webpage, which contained the support text, and the app got rejected, because after about THREE links, that would lead to the homepage, and there was a premium offer, and you can't have it.....

They kept denying updates for reasons like that....

"Coincidentally" they released their streaming service that month....

That's extremely anti-competitive..... and it wasn't done for the benefit of the user, but for the benefit of Apple only. When a user buys a phone, they have a reasonable expectations that other apps would work, and you will not be forced to use apple only services (directly or indirectly).

I.e. they are false advertising their phones.....

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Does Spotify not work on iOS? Is this the same Spotify that originally required a Facebook account to sign up?
When clear objective anti competitive points are presented, lets switch attention to Facebook.