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Spotify’s Apple Music Complaint Was a Near Decade in the Making

  • Tensions have grown as Apple expands from hardware to services
  • Swedish company says its main rival behaves anti-competitively
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Spotify Technology SA latest complaint against Apple Inc. highlights the tensions that arise when a hardware powerhouse starts competing with companies that helped drive the appeal of its products in the first place.

Spotify on Wednesday demanded that Apple should be probed by the European Union’s powerful antitrust agency over how it allegedly squeezes rival music streaming services.