{"id":316391,"date":"2019-08-14T09:42:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T07:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=316391"},"modified":"2019-08-14T09:44:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T07:44:09","slug":"apple-users-will-be-able-to-access-spotify-through-siri-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/316391-apple-users-will-be-able-to-access-spotify-through-siri-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple users will be able to access Spotify through Siri &#8211; Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple and Spotify are in talks to allow users to access Spotify through Siri, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/apple-spotify-discuss-siri-truce-as-antitrust-battle-looms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The Information<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Apple Music would still be the default music playing platform for Apple users, but Spotify would be accessible too if the user specifically requests it.<\/p>\n<p>Spotify has previously complained to European competition entities over the fact that Spotify was blocked from communicating with Siri.<\/p>\n<p>The music streaming company&#8217;s issues with Apple are not limited to this, however, with a variety of other battles taking place between the two companies.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, Spotify <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/305436-spotify-turns-the-anti-apple-volume-up-to-11.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>asked<\/strong><\/a> the European Union to look into Apple&#8217;s fees for App Store vendors, which it claimed were exorbitant.<\/p>\n<p>Apple replied by saying that the music streaming giant wants all the benefits of its app store without contributing to the marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear whether this battle has been resolved, but it appears the two companies are finally seeing eye-to-eye on at least one topic.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/316373-whatsapp-to-ban-underage-users.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">WhatsApp to ban underage users<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple and Spotify are in talks to allow users to access Spotify through Siri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":228599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[605,2916,7927],"class_list":["post-316391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-siri","tag-spotify"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316397,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316391\/revisions\/316397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}