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CTOnews.com, Oct. 26, Spotify said that Apple is making it more difficult to sell audiobooks, a product that Spotify just launched last month. The company called Apple's approach "anti-competitive" and called it "choking competition" in a blog post before the company disclosed its results on Tuesday.

Spotify said Apple's rules made the process of buying audiobooks on Spotify "too complex and confusing", adding that Apple "arbitrarily changed its rules to make it unexplainable". Apple charges a commission of up to 30 per cent on in-app purchases on App Store and forbids some developers from using or guiding users to use external payment services.

Spotify said Apple rejected its proposed audiobook purchase program three times because it violated App Store policy. In order to comply with Apple's rules, Spotify hides the price of its audiobooks and does not allow users to buy content in the app. Instead, the user needs to select the book he wants to buy, and then Spotify sends the user a link via email to view it online.

This makes it more difficult to compare prices, which users can only learn through e-mail. Spotify said the process "hurt not only consumers, but also authors and publishers, who now find themselves suppressed by Apple."

This is not the first time Spotify has challenged Apple. In 2019, the music streaming company filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple in Europe, claiming that the company harmed consumers' choices by imposing a 30% "Apple tax".

"without government intervention-in Europe, the United States or any other market in the world-Apple has repeatedly made it clear that it will not regulate itself and has no real incentive to change," Spotify CEO Daniel Ike said in a statement today. Through the launch of our audiobooks, Apple has once again proved how unscrupulous it is about the rules of its app store, constantly shifting goalposts to put its competitors at a disadvantage. "

CTOnews.com learned that while Spotify can make it easier to buy audiobooks by using Apple's in-app purchase system, it will make every purchase subject to Apple's commission of up to 30 per cent, which will also make it harder for Spotify to compete with Apple Books.

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