As you probably already know, a few days ago from Spotify decided to file a formal complaint with the European Commission against AppleThe truth is that they are not making it easy for this service to continue growing, mainly due to the policies imposed on developers with the App Store and the rivalry caused by Apple Music.
Yesterday, we saw the official response from Apple, where they basically indicate that the arguments presented by Spotify are not entirely faithful to reality, taking into account that "they intend to offer a paid service with the advantages of free applications", to which from the Spotify team they have decided to respond again, indicating that what they are doing is a monopoly.
This is how Spotify reacted to Apple's response to its formal complaint
As we have been able to know thanks to the information of VarietyIt appears that Spotify has recently responded to such a formal complaint again following the earlier response from Apple. It is quite curious how they indicate that they were already expecting such a response from them, and as they have published, "Any monopolist will suggest that he has done nothing wrong and argue that he cares about the best interests of competitors and consumers".
In this way, Spotify would have decided to continue fighting to defend its rights as a company and to offer the best possible services to users of Apple products. We leave you the complete answer translated below:
“Any monopolist will suggest that he has done nothing wrong and will argue that he cares about the interests of competitors and consumers. Thus, Apple's response to our complaint to the European Commission is not new and meets our expectations perfectly.
We file our complaint because Apple's actions hurt competition and consumers, and are a clear violation of the law. This is evident in Apple's belief that Spotify users on iOS are Apple customers and not Spotify customers, which goes to the heart of the problem with Apple. We are now awaiting the process that the European Commission must undertake to carry out its review. '
In this way, as you may have imagined, It seems that the war is going to continue for some time more, because this goes a long way.Although it is true that it is possible that the European Commission does not give it so much importance and that they let it pass. We will see little by little how all this evolves.
