Spotify has answered for themselves the question about whether their long-touted audiobooks offering will have much impact on the market. The company has struggled to obtain approval from Apple’s app store for their efforts to circumvent the well-known rules around in-app purchases. It turns out if you don’t want to pay Apple their 30 percent commission, you wind up with an awkward process: “The Audiobooks purchase flow that Apple’s rules force us to provide consumers today is far too complicated and confusing.” Spotify seems to think there is something new about this: “This harms not only consumers, but, this time, […]
