[fetzu]

It is interesting how that timelines blames the 30% Apple tax as the reason why they had to up the price to 12.99/mo; but they somehow did not bring it back to 9.99/mo when they managed to go around the tax.

I am not defending Apple’s practices, I just find the omission on a website called “time to play fair” sweetly ironic.

[chetanbhasin]

But Spotify is the same way. They underpay the artists in the market they dominate. Everybody with Monopoly in any market is abusing it and pointing fingers at the others.

[red_trumpet]

How and when did they manage to go around the 30% fee[1]?

[1] Not sure if "fee" is the correct term, but it's certainly not a tax, because those are issued by governmental organizations by definition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax).

[shkkmo]

What are you talking about? Spotify premium is currently USD 9.99/mo.

[8ytecoder]

$12.99 when you subscribe via App Store.

[smoldesu]

That's truly unfair and must feel awful as an iPhone user. Fingers crossed that Apple makes this right in the long-term.

[brokenmachine]

Every day I learn something new that Apple does that sucks.

They're an absolutely terrible company, and are actively ruining something I love which is general purpose computing with the user as owner. Fuck Apple.

[FinnKuhn]

iPhone users can still subscribe via the website, if they want to save a few $ a month afaik

[LegitShady]

its because apple is taking a cut that it costs more. If you don't want to pay it, subscribe on a platform like a normal web browser that doesn't force spotify to pay a cut to apple.