We all listen to music in our daily life. Sometimes on a journey, sometimes in sports, sometimes while working on something. For example, while the editor who wrote this article was writing the article, the Spotify playlist was playing in the background. However, a news has emerged that concerns iOS users. Spotify Premium payment options have changed. There are now differences in payments made through the App Store. Here are the details…
Spotify will no longer accept payments made through the App Store!
Many applications receive payments from their users with in-app purchase options through the App Store. Some games, social media etc. One of them was the Spotify application for a period. However, the payment agreement made later was overturned as a result of the disagreement of the parties, and the option to pay for the Spotify application through the App Store was closed.
But there is a missed point here. Users who started making payments between 2014 and 2016. Between the aforementioned two years, 2014 and 2016, Spotify was accepting payment through the App Store. Many of the users who switched to Spotify Premium and paid their payments with App Store billing between these years seem to have not given up on their habits in the intervening 7-9 years.
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The App Store has a 30 percent commission on purchases made on the platform in accordance with its own rules. In other words, if you have a subscription of 100 TL, 30 TL of it goes to the App Store, 70 TL goes to the application itself. Although this situation annoys some application developers, it continues because of the event we call prisoner. The App Store, on the other hand, refers to the amount required to cover the costs for commissions, which companies describe as high rates.
As for Spotify, the application did not accept payments made through the App Store in 2016, opposing a 30 percent commission, and since then, it directed users to the Spotify desktop application and started to receive payments via personal debit and credit cards. Users who made their purchases through the App Store between 2014 and 2016 and who could not give up their habits in the intervening 7-9 years still make their payments via the App Store.
However, Spotify now wants these users to make their payments via their own cards. For this reason, an e-mail was sent to users who paid through the App Store, stating that if they did not switch to a new payment method by the end of the month, they would switch to the free advertising package.