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Rachelle Abbott

Tech & Science Daily podcast: Spotify says Apple ‘choking competition’

The logo in the window of the Apple Store on Regent Street, London. The technology giant has smashed the global record for quarterly profits after racking up a surplus of 18 billion US dollars (£11.9 billion). (Picture: PA Archive)

More anticompetitive criticisms have been made against Apple.

Spotify has accused them of ‘choking competition’. The music streamer called out the tech giant for its 30 percent commissions on audiobooks and its rules which make the process of buying an audiobook on Spotify “far too complicated and confusing”.

There’s also been a backlash over their recent changes to their rules on NFT-powered apps.

In other Apple news, the company has confirmed the iPhone is getting USB-C but they don’t appear to be very happy about it.

In an interview, Apple marketing lead Greg Joswiak, said “obviously we’ll have to comply” with the EU’s new rules while criticising them for e-waste implications and inconveniencing customers.

The discovery of the secret communications of over 50 sea animals could rewrite what we know about evolution.

The research suggests that all vertebrates that breathe through their noses and use sound to communicate descended from a single ancestor 400 million years ago.

Google and Microsoft hit by advertising slowdown, a report finds that climate change is threatening global health and EE launches cyber security monthly packages.

Plus, scientists discover six new species of rain frog in Ecuador, a mummified boy buried in an unmarked grave 400 years ago is identified and TikTok’s favourite emu Emmanuel might be a bit of a drama queen.

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