Spotify says its iPhone app updates in the EU are getting held up by Apple

I show up for Apple a lot here. It's unpopular but I have felt that a lot of what they do - if not justified - is at least their choice to make.

Apple's actions recently are hard to defend, and look like increasingly desperate efforts to simply ignore laws that they don't like. It's not a good look. I really wish they would aggressively embrace compliance. Make the experience for developers on the App store so good that it's not worth it to go elsewhere - rather than making the experience so bad for alternate marketplaces that developers can't reasonably make the choice.

And the store process should be so good that going off to a website to buy something even if it does cost a little more should be worth it.

This delaying of reviews, and arbitrary canceling of developer accounts is embarrassing.

Am I the only one that finds the quality of Spotify’s apps absolutely horrible? The iOS and desktop apps are terrible but for different reasons. Also they haven’t changed significantly in ages so it’s not as if there’s been a bunch of churn…

I’ll regularly have unexplained networking issues in the Spotify iOS app. And don’t even get me started on the experience of trying to listen to downloaded content when you have an active (according to the OS) data link…

I wonder if it would be a good idea to push two more updates for review, one removing the notice about paying outside the appstore, and another re-adding it. I assume the employees reviewing have been given a strategy to follow, but it would be pretty damning if the version without the pricing info got through.