[actionfromafar]

Spotify wants you to spend time in their app. Apple is just doing Apple things, I guess.

[vsnf]

Not that I want to spend any time at all in their app. Each passing day it gets simultaneously more neglected, and also receives random UX overhauls that make my life worse.

[guappa]

I am starting to think that having designers as full time employees is counter productive.

[luigi23]

They dont care if you want it or not. Spotify also doesnt provide shortcuts on ios, so its all planned. They want to farm real user actions and engagements, not applescripts.

[spike021]

FWIW Apple always had an iTunes "now playing" thing for iChat back in the day so it's not like nobody over there thought of doing something like that.