This signals how the battle over the audiobook purchase flow hindered the company from rolling out updates.
This marks the first update to the Spotify app for iOS in over a month, despite the fact that the app is usually updated on a weekly basis.
This new solution, however, is in compliance with App Store guidelines and was approved by Apple today. As such, Apple rejected the update (and two other supposed fixes) during the app review process. This flow, as pointed out by The Verge, wasn’t in full compliance with Apple’s App Store guidelines. Instead, the company sent users a link via email to purchase the book via the web. When Spotify first added audiobooks last month, users couldn’t make purchases in the app. Rather, users are sent out to the Spotify website to complete their purchase of an audiobook.
Unsurprisingly, Spotify was not able to break the App Store guidelines and instead is blocking users from purchasing audiobooks directly in the app. Spotify today rolled out an update to its iOS app that does indeed add updated support for audiobooks. As we all expected, Spotify has now given in to Apple’s demands, but it couldn’t resist taking one more jab along the way… Earlier this week, Spotify ran to the press to complain that Apple had rejected the latest version of its iOS app for skirting in-app purchase rules as it worked on adding audiobooks as a new feature.
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