{"id":1757954,"date":"2022-12-01T06:30:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T11:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757954"},"modified":"2022-12-01T09:18:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T14:18:18","slug":"spotify-ceo-joins-elon-musk-accuses-apple-of-shameless-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/spotify-ceo-joins-elon-musk-accuses-apple-of-shameless-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify CEO Joins Elon Musk, Accuses Apple of \u201cShameless\u201d Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fspotify-ceo-joins-elon-musk-accuses-apple-of-shameless-policies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757954&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The CEO of Spotify joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-twitter\">Twitter<\/a> owner Elon Musk Wednesday in criticizing Apple over its App Store rules, claiming the firm only acts in its own self-interest.<\/p>\n<p>In a thread on Twitter, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek wrote that as Musk and \u201ccountless\u00a0entrepreneurs\u201d have noted, \u201cApple is shameless in their bullying including our recent efforts to help authors sell more audiobooks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApple acts in self interest but also doesn\u2019t seem to care about the law or courts,\u201d Ek <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eldsjal\/status\/1597936768523063297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1597936768523063297%7Ctwgr%5Ed14e344a913a82b223f6e51838193bc545aac79a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ffinance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fapple-app-store-daniel-ek-spotify-ceo-151829989.html\">wrote<\/a>, adding, \u201cHow much longer will we look away from this threat to the future of the internet? How many more consumers will be denied choice? There\u2019s been a lot of talk. Talk is helpful but we need action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apple\u2019s alleged \u201cbad behavior is far-reaching and as [Musk] recently pointed out, not widely understood,\u201d Ek continued. \u201cIn 2020, the European Commission launched its own investigation and in 2021 their initial findings showed Apple to be in breach of European competition law,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the first time that Spotify or its CEO have targeted Apple over its app policies, with reports claiming its App Store has rejected the Spotify app three times.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.spotify.com\/2022-10-25\/apples-anti-competitive-behavior-hurts-everyone-including-audiobook-listeners-publishers-and-authors\/\">blog post written<\/a> in October, Spotify said that \u201cApple continues to stand in the way of Spotify\u2019s and other developers\u2019 abilities to provide a seamless user experience, and its restrictions hurt both creators and consumers alike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Musk wrote that\u00a0Apple allegedly threatened to remove Twitter from its App Store and accused the firm of suppressing free speech by mandating that apps abide by its rules around content. Notably, Apple and Google removed the alternative social media platform Parler in early 2021 for similar reasons before it was restored later that year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter. Do they hate free speech in America?\u201d Musk also wrote. For months, the Tesla CEO has complained that Apple levies a 30 percent fee on in-app purchases, meaning it is likely hurting Musk\u2019s companies\u2019 revenue.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4120847\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/11\/23\/Apple-CEO-Tim-Cook-1200x800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-medium wp-image-4120847\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Apple-CEO-Tim-Cook-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"Apple CEO Tim Cook\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4120847\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Apple-CEO-Tim-Cook-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"Apple CEO Tim Cook\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Apple CEO Tim Cook attends The Apple Inc. Tower Theatre retail store opening on Broadway Theater District in downtown Los Angeles on June 24, 2021. (Patrick T. Fallon\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>Apple, the world\u2019s largest company by valuation, and its CEO, Tim Cook, have not publicly responded to either Musk or Ek this week. The firm has not returned an Epoch Times\u2019 request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, who has not provided many details about what threats Apple allegedly made, criticized the firm as he plans to roll out a new monthly Twitter subscription and verification service. After taking over Twitter last month, Musk has restored the accounts of former President Donald Trump, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Jordan Peterson, the Babylon Bee, and numerous others.<\/p>\n<h2>Investigations?<\/h2>\n<p>While Twitter likely does not provide a significant source of revenue to Apple via its App Store, a number of lawmakers and officials have suggested that Congress investigate the company. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Ohio Senator-elect J.D. Vance, both Republicans, said on Tuesday that a probe is warranted while DeSantis criticized the firm for its recent alleged censorship of Chinese protesters<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou also hear reports Apple is threatening to remove Twitter from the App Store because Elon Musk is actually opening it up for free speech, and is restoring a lot of accounts that were unfairly and illegitimately suspended for putting out accurate information about Covid,\u201d DeSantis told reporters Tuesday at a Florida news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Apple responds to that by nuking them from the app store, I think that would be a huge, huge mistake, and it would be a really raw exercise of monopolistic power,\u201d he continued before stating that Apple is now acting as a \u201cvassal\u201d to the Chinese Communist Party amid reports that it updated its AirDrop app to limit use within China.<\/p>\n<p>Vance, who was elected during the Nov. 8 election, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDVance1\/status\/1597342625765330944\">posted<\/a>\u00a0that deplatforming Twitter \u201cwould be the most raw exercise of monopoly power in a century, and no civilized country should allow it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John Freeman, analyst at CFRA, <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/apple-app-store-daniel-ek-spotify-ceo-151829989.html\">told<\/a> Yahoo that Apple is \u201cplaying a dangerous game\u201d with apps and said it \u201cbetter have a really good reason to reject the app,\u201d referring to Spotify. European regulators have already launched an antitrust investigation into the Cupertino, California-based corporation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpotify might have a point of leverage that they could take advantage of,\u201d Freeman told Yahoo. \u201cIf I were them, I\u2019d play the David versus Goliath card.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-jack-phillips\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2019\/06\/13\/Jack-Phillips.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Phillips\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Breaking News Reporter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jack Phillips is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times based in New York. He covers breaking news.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO of Spotify joined Twitter owner Elon Musk Wednesday in criticizing Apple over its App Store rules, claiming the firm only acts in its own self-interest.In a thread on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1757957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1757954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1757957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}