Spotify adds external subscription links to the iOS app following US court decision | Infinium-tech

Following the decision of a landmark court, Spotify can now have membership links within the iOS app in the US that allow users to pay externally by ignoring all Apple payment systems. The company today announced that it immediately sent an update to its app, which Apple was supposed to approve after the court orders.

With this update, users can now see all the spotify plans and promotions within the app and click on them to go to the external payment page. By doing this, the user is ignoring Apple’s payment system, which, as is free from trouble, also charged 30% on top of the plan fee. When they click on the outer link according to the court orders, the Apple cannot charge a 27% fee for external payments paid and neither can the user show intimidation-screen.

This free lunch for Spotify comes from courtesy of the epic Games, who won a landslide against Apple in an American court on April 30, where the judge ordered Apple to stop the developers from charging the fee at the external payment link and also try to clicking on the external link to prevent the intimidation of users. The court also found Apple in a violation of a previous decision, requiring Apple to allow the developers to direct the developers to other payment systems. In addition, an Apple VP was found to be lying on a record, which will have its own different effects.

Apple is currently in the process of appealing the court’s decision.

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