[JimA]

Regardless of the passionate feelings against Spotify, it's hard to dispute their basic premise that Apple is deliberately creating a bad user experience just to preserve their walled content garden.

The same thing applies to not being able to buy a book using the Amazon app. It's ridiculous and there is no valid argument against it other than greed. Not a fan of overregulation, but in this area I can't wait for Apple to be reined in.

[threeseed]

Spotify could just implement IAP. It's simple and has a great user experience.

Seems like this is more about Spotify wanting to benefit from the channel without paying for it.

[AntonyGarand]

IAP take a 30% cut, which is unreasonable on things like audiobook

[amelius]

Yes, there should be a law that hardware that the user paid for cannot be tethered by the manufacturer. Otherwise it is a service, not a product.

[boxed]

The problem isn't that Apple forces IAP. The problem is that they have the outrageous cut of 30% (or even 15%). Apples IAP is awesome. Their greed is not.