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Apple Inc on Thursday responded to Spotify Technology SA's complaint with E...

- Apple Inc on Thursday responded to Spotify Technology SA’s complaint with EU antitrust regulators, saying the audio streaming service “wants all the benefits of a free app without being free”.

Spotify, launched a year after Apple unveiled its first iPhone in 2007, said on Wednesday the company unfairly limits rivals to its own music streaming service. In response, Apple said it had approved and distributed nearly 200 app updates on Spotify’s behalf, resulting in over 300 million downloaded copies of the Spotify app.

The Swedish company has launched a website, outlining different ways in which Apple uses its power to make its platform an “uneven playing field.”

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