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Comment on Apple ordered by EU regulators to open up to rivals.

AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Poorly written article but it does end with a correction that “Spotify has not opted in to using the required APIs”.

While I have no way of knowing who to blame here, I see Spotify trying to blame Apple rather than talk about the api claim. If they have an objection to that api, let’s meet there, a little closer to reality

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Eideen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I believe that only apply to the HomePod

Although some third-party music services can stream directly from Apple’s HomePod, many major streamers, including Spotify, never adopted the necessary API. Instead, users have to use AirPlay to play songs from Spotify — though, a workaround in iOS 17 made this process a little easier by allowing users to ask Siri to start an AirPlay session.

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- AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah but that still makes no sense.
  
  I have Spotify and lost that easy volume control capability when this issue first surfaced. However I have never used a HomePod. Something changed and it has nothing to do with my non-existent HomePod
  
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  - Eideen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Am only replying to you talking about some unrelated to the issue at hand. That is what they trying to say. Apple removes a feature that we all used, and only mad it only available for apple products.
    
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