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Apple ordered by EU regulators to open up to rivals. (www.rte.ie)

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Apple was ordered by EU antitrust regulators today to open up its closed ecosystem to rivals, with the latter spelling out details on how to go about it in line with the bloc's landmark rules and where non-compliance could lead to an investigation and fines.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (10 children)

I hope Spotify will we able to bring back volume control of connected devices.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/29/24231516/spotify-apple-physical-iphone-volume-controls

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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. Whatever changed has nothing to do with my non-existent HomePod

Maybe this is unrelated but there was also a change to HomeKit where we had to accept some sort of architectural update having to do with my non-existent HomePod. I can easily believe a common ground of API changes and that Spotify didn’t want to update

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day 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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