Apple reveals new details about Spotify’s business

This week, Financial Times reported the European Commission will issue its first-ever fine against Apple for allegedly breaking EU competition law in the streaming music market. The fine is expected to be around €500 million (US$539 million). Ahead of the expected fine, Apple has revealed new details about Spotify’s business.
Sarah Perez for TechCrunch:
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In a statement shared with media today, Apple argued against the idea that Spotify has been harmed by any anticompetitive practices on its part… Apple pointed out also that Spotify has a 56% share of the [worldwide] market, compared with 20% for Amazon Music and Apple Music’s 11%, per MIDiA’s 2022 report on the subscription music market.
In addition, Apple shared a number of non-public details about Spotify’s business, as it pertains to Apple’s platforms, including, for example, that Spotify uses thousands of Apple’s APIs across 60 frameworks; that Spotify uses Apple’s beta testing platform TestFlight; that Spotify has submitted over 420 versions of its app to App Review, which were approved; and even that Apple engineers have helped Spotify solve various challenges, like those impacting hardware-accelerated media playback and battery optimization.
And, for those number watchers out there, Apple also said that Spotify’s app had been downloaded, re-downloaded or updated more than 119 billion times across Apple devices… Apple believes that Spotify only wants to increase its profits, by leveraging regulations to its advantage.

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MacDailyNews Take: Spotify is a low-fi, non-spatial moocher.
Spotify wants all the benefits of a free app without being free. – MacDailyNews, May 29, 2019
Spotify… has already been eclipsed by Apple Music in the world’s No.1 market for recorded music, the United States of America. Seeing the writing on the wall, Spotify runs whining to the EU like little babies crying for mommy; not a shred of dignity left.. — MacDailyNews, March 15, 2019
“This boils down to the fact that Spotify wants to use the platform that Apple built and maintains at great expense for free.” – MacDailyNews, March 13, 2019
BTW: You’d have to be stupid to subscribe to Spotify when it has fewer tracks in lower quality than Apple Music for the same price. If you’re still subscribing to Spotify, it’s past time for you to cancel it and upgrade to Apple Music. (Use the simple Playlisty app to transfer Spotify playlists to Apple Music in seconds.)
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