While Apple now provides Siri support for Spotify, it still doesn’t let users run third-party music apps on its HomePod speaker or change the default music app on iOS and iPadOS, the software that runs on the iPhone and iPad. However, Apple plans to start letting services, including Spotify, run on the HomePod as soon as later this year. — AFP
Spotify Technology SA chief executive officer Daniel Ek said he expects Apple Inc to further open up its platform a year after the Stockholm-based music streaming company filed an antitrust complaint with the European Union.
"Long term, we do expect Apple to open up,” Ek said in an interview with Bloomberg TV that aired on Tuesday. Spotify has criticised Apple for taking a 30% cut of subscriptions and accused it of limiting app updates and preventing functionality on the Apple Watch and Siri. In the EU complaint filed last year, Spotify said Apple is a platform provider and a competitor, giving it an incentive to disadvantage rival services.
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