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by eadz 876 days ago
Spotify has its own App Store, with an even worse experience for developers in my experience.

Rather than a published set of rules and fees for commercial apps, instead Spotify requires you contact them, and fees and rules are done behind closed doors, if you even get that far.

Since Spotify is throwing stones here, what are Spotify’s commercial rates for Spotify integrated apps in their App Store?
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gamblor956 876 days ago
Can you provide link to Spotify's app store? I've used spotify since it launched and was never aware of this feature.
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eadz 876 days ago
They seemed to have recently removed it. The link below shows what it recently looked like.

The main issue was if you want to make a commercial app, there are no publicly available commercial terms, and it is easy for Spotify to not offer commercial terms to apps/companies that may in some way increase the chance of competition with Spotify. For example, if you wanted to make an app that would allow you to export your playlists, Spotify may offer you terrible commercial terms or none at all.

This is more restrictive than Apple.

https://www.iorad.com/player/2097656/Spotify---How-to-view-S...

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gamblor956 875 days ago
That's not an app store. That's just a gallery of Spotify partners...

Due to the way music licensing works, Spotify would never have had the same type of app store as Apple or Google.

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eadz 875 days ago
It was a listing of apps on the Spotify platform.

The main point is, Spotify has a platform, like Apple, but is throwing stones from a glass house when it comes to trying to build on the platform.

Most of the integrations do not have anything to do with using the copyrighted music, e.g. a playlist export app.

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gamblor956 874 days ago
It's not an app store. It's not like throwing stones from a glass house, because it's not an app store.

Most of the integrations do not have anything to do with using the copyrighted music, e.g. a playlist export app

Most Spotify integrations literally involve playing music through Spotify, so it's curious that you pick one of the very rare integrations that do not.

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