Earlier this year, Spotify officially filed a complaint with the European Commission (the EU's consumer and competition body) about Apple and its alleged anti-competitive practices. A Financial Times report now suggests an investigation. In particular, Spotify complained about the App Store's apparent discrimination against music streaming services that compete with Apple Music and are hosted by this service. Apple's current model for its App Store provides a 30% reduction on all subscriptions purchased through its platform, which would artificially inflate the cost of a Spotify Premium account higher than that of a PC. an Apple Music subscription, according to Spotify CEO and founder Daniel Ek. Ek also claims that if his company foregoes the use of Apple Pay, it will "enforce a number of technical restrictions and limit the Spotify experience," such as limiting customer communication, updates, and compatibility bans. Devices and services like HomePod, Siri, and Apple Watch. Apple has reacted rather barbarically to the complaint, largely rejecting these accusations and accusing Spotify of being motivated by financial considerations: "After years of using the App Store to dramatically grow its business, Spotify wants to keep all the benefits of the App Store ecosystem, including significant revenue generated by customers. "The App Store, without making any contribution to this market," Apple says. "At the same time, they distribute the music you love while they make an ever smaller contribution to the artists, musicians and composers who create it, even going so far as to bring these creators to justice. According to the Times, an investigation will launch in the coming weeks, but there's no guarantee the findings will fall in Spotify's favor. However, if they did, we could see more affordable Spotify subscriptions through the App Store, as well as other competing streaming services.