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Apple issues heated response to Spotify’s ‘anticompetitive’ accusation letter

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<p>If Apple versus FBI (http://9to5mac.com/2016/05/11/fbi-director-says-encryption-debate-far-from-over/) was the big story to start the year, then it looks like Apple versus Spotify will be the hot battle of the summer. Yesterday a letter surfaced in which Spotify accused Apple (http://9to5mac.com/2016/06/30/spotify-apple-music-competition/) of being anticompetitive with its App Store policies and holding back a Spotify update in order to benefit Apple Music. This letter is likely what prompted Senator Elizabeth Warren’s negative remarks about Apple (http://9to5mac.com/2016/06/29/elizabeth-warren-apple-monopoly-comments/) earlier this week.</p>
<p>Now Apple is pushing back and without mincing words. Apple’s top lawyer Bruce Sewell has issued a three-page response to Spotify (via Buzzfeed (https://www.buzzfeed.com/johnpaczkowski/apple-fires-back-at-spotify-for-asking-for-preferential-trea?utm_term=.at5RrMx3m#.fbJOR2Mjr)) in which he accuses Spotify of “resorting to rumors and half-truths about our service.”</p>
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