

Spotify sided with Epic Games, maker of “Fortnite,” in the game company’s legal challenge to Apple App Store policies for developers Epic mostly lost in an initial ruling, which it has appealed.Īpple, under its regular policies, collects 30% of first-year subscription payments it reduces that to 15% starting in the second year of a subscription. Spotify still does not allow customers to pay through Apple’s App Store. Spotify has publicly railed against the practices adopted by Google and Apple’s app stores. Last fall, when Google announced its change to a 15% commission for subscriptions from the get-go (instead of 30% in the first year), the company said music streaming services were eligible “for a service fee as low as 10%.”

Google also will charge a fee for purchases made through Spotify’s billing system, but that figure isn’t public either. I am now using Napster (Formerly "Rhapsody") which is also a great service.Spotify will be paying Google a cut of subscription fees under the new arrangement - which is some percentage less than the standard 15% that Google now charges developers for subscriptions, but neither company would confirm what that number is - for purchases made through Google’s app store. Then I used Google Play Music for about a year (I was able to get an extended free-trial period for it then an extended trial for YouTube Red, which, as the other mentioned, subscribing to one gives access to the other. I used Spotify from when it became available in the U.S. I would recommend the musconv tool - bangelicaīoth services are awesome. If ever you decide to transfer your music playlist from one library to another like spotify to google music or vice versa.
