Spotify Calls Apple’s DMA Compliance Plan Extortion 

Spotify issued its response to Apple’s new DMA rules, calling the new fees imposed on developers extortion and Apple’s compliance plan a complete and total farce that demonstrated the tech giant believes that the rules don’t apply to them. Apple earlier this week announced a host of changes that comply with the letter of the EU law. The company say that app developers in the EU will receive reduced commissions, but it also introduced a new core technology fee that requires developers to pay €0.50 for each first annual install per year over a 1 million threshold, regardless of their distribution channel. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, whose company sued Apple over antitrust concerns, already condemned Apple’s plan, saying it was a case of malicious compliance and full of junk fees, and now Spotify is essentially saying the same.