Following considerable back and forth earlier this year, Spotify announced on Wednesday that Apple has permitted it to show pricing details to consumers in the EU within its iOS app.
The company can now show pricing details and promotional offers for each membership tier on the Spotify app, effective today in Europe.
A revised blog post stated that Spotify is pleased with the advancements made since the European Commission found that Apple had broken EU competition regulations and was fined more than $2 billion a year ago.
Newsng understands that Spotify is making use of new EU antitrust regulations designed especially for music streaming apps rather than submitting to Apple’s new business requirements under the EU’s Digital Markets Act.
That rejection was due to Spotify not accepting Apple’s Music Streaming Services Entitlement, newly introduced terms governing how music streaming apps in the European Economic Area inform users of other ways to make purchases.
The Swedish audio streaming company said while it is now accepting those terms, its iOS app will not give users an external link to make purchases as it does not want to pay Apple a commission on such transactions.
However, Spotify will be unable to publish a link to its website since doing so would oblige the firm to pay Apple a 27% fee on such transactions, which it does not intend to do.
Instead, the wording in the app will only be able to direct visitors to Spotify’s website, without spelling out the domain name or.com address.
Spotify said that Apple would not allow it to add the text “spotify.com” even if it was not hyperlinked, to avoid commission payments.
We earlier reported that Spotify is introducing the option to make comments on podcasts. The firm already allows Spotify podcasters to include polls and Q&As, so this new tool may provide artists with more opportunities to communicate with their fans.
