I find everything that Spotify says about the Watch to be disingenuous.
> Us: "Hey Apple, we love your watch; can we make an app for that?" Them: "nah
The first Apple Watch was slow, and didn’t have any real third party apps at all. They were basically all running on the phone and displaying things slowly on the Watch.
> Apple rejects Spotify's proposal for an Apple Watch app yet again (2016)
This was before the cellular watch came out. How much good would any streaming service be with wifi only? Even then, for battery saving reasons, the Watch really preferred Bluetooth to communicate with the phone
> This app update means that rival apps have to agree not to “directly or indirectly target iOS users to use a purchasing method other than IAP or discourage the use of IAP.”
No retailer is going to let a company advertise how to buy products cheaper somewhere else.
> Apple finally allows enhanced functionality for the Spotify app on the Apple Watch (2018)
And it took Spotify over two years to support streaming music from the Watch.
And now they introduce their own “podcast player” that can’t play podcasts - ie audio hosted on a server where I can subscribe to a RSS feed.
> Us: "Hey Apple, we love your watch; can we make an app for that?" Them: "nah
The first Apple Watch was slow, and didn’t have any real third party apps at all. They were basically all running on the phone and displaying things slowly on the Watch.
> Apple rejects Spotify's proposal for an Apple Watch app yet again (2016)
This was before the cellular watch came out. How much good would any streaming service be with wifi only? Even then, for battery saving reasons, the Watch really preferred Bluetooth to communicate with the phone
> This app update means that rival apps have to agree not to “directly or indirectly target iOS users to use a purchasing method other than IAP or discourage the use of IAP.”
No retailer is going to let a company advertise how to buy products cheaper somewhere else.
> Apple finally allows enhanced functionality for the Spotify app on the Apple Watch (2018)
And it took Spotify over two years to support streaming music from the Watch.
And now they introduce their own “podcast player” that can’t play podcasts - ie audio hosted on a server where I can subscribe to a RSS feed.