Apple responds to Spotify's complaint, says Spotify seeks to keep all the benefits of the App Store “without making any contributions to that marketplace”
and It's Failing to Make Its Case Jen Thorpe / Geek News Central : Apple Addressed Spotify's Claims Yoni Heisler / BGR : Apple fires back at Spotify and disputes claim that it's stifling innovation Michael K. Spencer / FutureSin : Apple and Facebook care about Privacy Patrick Seitz / Investor's Business Daily : Apple Fights Back Against Spotify's App Store ‘Tax’ Complaints Michael Simon / Macworld : Apple sounds off on Spotify's antitrust claims in surprisingly tone-deaf screed Paul Sawers / VentureBeat : Apple's response to Spotify's antitrust complaint ignores the elephant in the room: Apple Music Charlotte Henry / The Mac Observer : Apple Hits Back at Spotify as War of Words Escalates Rob Pegoraro / Yahoo Finance : Spotify has a point about Apple's App Store fees Rene Ritchie / iMore : Spotify is trying to screw App Store the way Spotify screws artists Jamie Powell / Financial Times : What Apple's Spotify retort doesn't say Joan E. Solsman / CNET : Apple slams Spotify's ‘misleading’ claim App Store abuses its power Dalvin Brown / USA Today : 'Let's clear this one up right away': Apple throws jabs at Spotify's complaint in Europe Eric Abent / SlashGear : Apple hits back at Spotify after antitrust complaint Harper Neidig / The Hill : Apple accuses Spotify of ‘misleading rhetoric’ in its antitrust complaint Christian Zibreg / iDownloadBlog.com : Apple defends the App Store business model in an open letter addressing Spotify's claims Philip Elmer-DeWitt : Apple vs. Spotify: Apple brings a gun to a knife fight (u) Rex Crum / Mercury News : Apple hits back at Spotify's anti-competition claims Paul Thurrott / Thurrott : Tearing Down Apple's Feeble Response to Spotify (Premium) Wei Shi / Telecoms.com : Apple issues weak response to Spotify's claims of discrimination Alan Martin / Inquirer : Apple hits back at Spotify's anticompetitive complaint Firstpost : Apple fires back at Spotify's EU antitrust lawsuit for unfair practices Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web : Who are you siding with in the Spotify-Apple antitrust war? Adam Engst / TidBITS : Apple Responds to Spotify BBC : Apple responds to Spotify complaints over App store John Voorhees / MacStories : Apple Responds to Spotify's Claims of Anticompetitive Behavior Christopher Baugh / iPhone in Canada Blog : Apple Responds to Spotify's EU Antitrust Lawsuit for Unfair Practices Steve Dent / Engadget : Apple says Spotify wants ‘the benefits of a free app without being free’ Dave Mark / The Loop : Addressing Spotify's claims Wayne Williams / BetaNews : Apple bites back at Spotify's damning claims against it Rik Henderson / Pocket-lint : Spotify vs Apple war of words intensifies: Apple responds to anti-competitive claims Jake Kanter / Business Insider : Apple goes for the jugular in a searing response to Spotify's antitrust complaint Stan Schroeder / Mashable : Apple has a very blunt response to Spotify's complaint Elizabeth Schulze / CNBC : Apple slams Spotify's claims about its App Store being unfair Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac : Apple says Spotify ‘wants all the benefits of a free app without being free’ in response to EU complaint Rajesh Pandey / iPhone Hacks : Apple Hits Back at the Accusations Made by Spotify Luke Dormehl / Cult of Mac : Apple comes out swinging against Spotify complaint Danbo / MAC blog : AppleSpotifyApple....... SpotifyApp Store.Apple Music.30 … Tweets: Owen Williams / @ow : In today's @chargedtech I wrote a paragraph-by-paragraph review of why Apple's response to Spotify, and how it says nothing of substance http://char.gd/... Carolina Milanesi / @caro_milanesi : The tone of the response to Spotify reminds me of the one against the Bloomberg story on Super Micro. http://twitter.com/... @petehalvorsen : Listen, Spotify would not be where they are today if iTunes (Apple) had fixed their UI years ago, it is the most non-Apple, Apple product they have. This shortfall opened the door for Spotify, Pandora and Rdio (RIP) to find homes. http://twitter.com/... Robert Gaal / @robertgaal : When Apple bans links to purchase subscriptions, in apps like Spotify and Netflix, it just creates a more frustrating user experience that's more expensive. This is counter to the Apple I know and love. As your customer and App Store developer, I hope you reconsider. http://twitter.com/... Nilay Patel / @reckless : Apple put out a response to Spotify's antitrust campaign today, and it is just extremely weird. Especially this part, where they repeat this inaccurate “suing songwriters” talking point that honestly makes no sense. http://www.theverge.com/... http://www.theverge.com/... http://twitter.com/... @firt : Apple replying to Spotify claims regarding the AppStore business model is something completely new. The tone and info shared in the press release has also no precedent. Apple received hundreds or thousands of similar claims during these 10 years http://www.apple.com/... Dan Seifert / @dcseifert : Tim Apple responds to Daniel Spotify's claims http://www.theverge.com/... Federico Viticci / @viticci : This part from Apple's response to Spotify is somewhat misleading. There is no Siri domain for music playback that Spotify (or others) can use. There are Siri shortcuts, which Spotify could add, but the experience is FAR from the native integration Apple Music has. pic.twitter.com/JgQO1mYJcD Adam Haworth / @aahaworth : Here's some context to the Spotify/Apple antitrust fiasco. App publishers have long complained about Apple's 30% tax, leveraging its own platform to promote its own apps, and all the rest of it. (Thread, sorry) Shira Ovide / @shiraovide : Good day, sir. You have been paying this 30% Apple tax for years. So, a new personal theory: Spotify wants to raise prices significantly, BUT blame it on Apple. http://www.ft.com/... http://twitter.com/... Neil Cybart / @neilcybart : Apple just responded to Spotify. I think it was an effective statement. http://www.apple.com/... http://twitter.com/... Ben Bajarin / @benbajarin : Apple hits back. Basically calling Spotify's claims as fake news (misinformation). http://twitter.com/... Josh Constine / @joshconstine : Spotify's counterargument should be “we contribute a popular service that makes iPhones appealing to Apple's customers” http://www.techmeme.com/... Robin Wauters / @robinwauters : And the war rages on http://twitter.com/... Philip Schiller / @pschiller : “From our earliest days, we've built our devices, software and services to help artists, musicians, creators and visionaries do what they do best.” #Apple https://www.apple.com/... See also Mediagazer