- Spotify’s new iOS update allows you to announce other payment options
- The change comes in response to a new decision of the US Application Store.
- The application still does not offer AirPlay 2 or Homepod Native Integration
That was fast. Only one day after a federal judge from the United States told Apple to loosen its control in the App Store, Spotify has issued an application update, which is already live in the App Store, which will allow customers to subscribe without going through Apple.
The update was approved by Apple and allows Spotify to include details about subscription plans and promotional offers available outside the App Store on the Spotify website.
Spotify has been a vocal critic of the rules of the application store and was in a bullish humor after the decision of a federal judge of the United States. Previously, Apple greatly restricted the number of applications developers that could announce and link payment options outside the App Store, where Apple takes a cut of 30% of payments in the application.
But the speed of the Spotify movement has made some subscribers a question: if Spotify can address this overnight, why hasn’t it set some of the most annoying missing features for Apple devices?
A potential response, of course, is that adding subscription links without apple makes Spotify more pleasant with Apple no.
What Spotify users are still waiting
For Apple listeners, two of the largest omissions are AirPlay 2 support and Homepod native integration, which have been possible for years. Spotify has chosen not to implement them and, as a result, Spotify transmission in Homepods or for AirPlay devices is a bit painful.
The reason why multiple streamers, Pandora was also here, did not hug Homepods was because when you asked them to play music, they would always go to Apple Music. But that was approached five years ago when Apple allowed you to specify other music applications such as its predetermined music player, and Pandora quickly changed its application accordingly.
But by then, Spotify was fighting with Apple on the rates of the application store and without humor to play well with its perceived oppressor. He filed his first anti -proteo complaint in Europe in 2019.
As the BTZ1 subscriber put it at the Spotify community site, just having a first -generation plane means that “this obsolete technology has several limitations that directly affect our enjoyment.”
These limits include interruptions in the audio, limited bandwidth compared to AirPlay 2 and the lack of multiple room support. In a later comment in the same thread, BTZ1 says: “I feel punished for wanting to use Spotify in the Apple ecosystem.”
Clearly, Spotify has the resources to make great changes in its application and make them quickly. Then, perhaps now I can escape the “Apple Tax” of Apple, you can put some of them to improve the experience of Apple’s subscribers with the characteristics they have been asking for for years.
