![]() “It’s moving in the right direction, but,” he added, “we still have many, many steps to go before we consider Apple an open and fair platform.” To quickly refresh your memory, Spotify CEO told Bloomberg last week that he was very “encouraged” seeing Apple’s readiness to “open up” to the idea of setting third-party apps as defaults on iOS devices. Respect and appreciate both companies, but ‘open’ Spotify is not. ![]() Having worked closely with both Apple and Spotify, I would say it’s more significantly more difficult to work within Spotify’s ‘closed’ ecosystem than Apple’s. In a tweet Wednesday, first spotted by Fortune, Sonos cofounder John MacFarlane said it was “solid irony” that Ek, who can be seen pictured top of post, was criticizing Apple’s platform. In a post on Twitter, MacFarlane called the real irony the fact that the Swedish company operates an even-more closed ecosystem than the Cupertino tech giant. Sonos cofounder John MacFarlane has hit back at Spotify’s cofounder and CEO Daniel Ek who recently whined about Apple’s platforms not being, in his personal view, open enough to third-party apps like Spotify.
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