(Reuters) – Streaming music agency Spotify Know-how SA SPOT.N on Tuesday criticized rival Apple Inc AAPL.O, saying {that a} new subscription bundle provide from the iPhone maker abuses its dominant market place by favoring its personal Apple Music service.
Spotify mentioned the Apple One bundle introduced Tuesday disadvantages streaming music rivals. Spotify and Apple cost $10 a month for his or her streaming music service, however the Apple One package deal bundles it with different providers similar to tv or video video games that begin at $15 monthly.
“We name on competitors authorities to behave urgently to limit Apple’s anti-competitive habits, which if left unchecked, will trigger irreparable hurt to the developer group and threaten our collective freedoms to pay attention, study, create, and join,” the music streaming firm mentioned.
In an announcement, Apple mentioned the bundle was geared toward current customers of its providers and that “clients can uncover and luxuriate in options to each certainly one of Apple’s providers.”
Reporting by Akanksha Rana in Bengaluru and Stephen Nellis in San Francisco; Modifying by Arun Koyyur and Aurora Ellis
