Spotify is trying hard to grow as a streaming music service, but it’s been slightly slower than its competitors. While almost every service already offers high fidelity (HiFi) music, Spotify is still considering charging more for higher quality music. This will undoubtedly have an impact on subscribers who will have to decide whether to continue on this platform or switch to another. A few hours ago they also announced who stop receiving payments for Spotify Premium subscriptions through the App Store via in-app purchases, thus avoiding the 15% commission imposed by Apple in the Apple Store.
Spotify Premium gets rid of app store fees
In its early days, Spotify allowed Apple users to subscribe to Premium through the App Store. However, seven years ago, he eliminated that possibility. However, if you had already subscribed to this payment method, you can continue to do so. It was through an integrated subscription directly connected to the App Store. This meant that each month it was the App Store that connected your payment method to Spotify. Although this may seem very convenient, it implies that the App Store applies a 15% commission (or 30% in some cases) to income. And this Spotify wanted to stop suffering.
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Users who had the Premium subscription payment associated with this payment method receive an email announcing that it is no longer available. This implies that users who do not update their payment method via the web they will automatically revert to the free version of Spotify directly. Therefore, there is no other option but to go to the official site and update the payment method. remember that they cannot be subscribed directly from the application, but Spotify requires you to do so through its website.
This is an expected move since we had not been able to subscribe to this payment method for seven years but despite everything, Spotify wanted those who had registered at the time to be able to pay like this. However, the high commissions that were carried by this type of payment could have led Spotify to permanently withdraw support for this billing method.
