I still don’t understand how Spotify doesn’t invest more in its iOS experience. Sure, they don’t have access to Siri, but that’s the only thing outside their control: The Spotify app takes far too long to load for a music player, even on an iPhone XS; the UI takes a one-size-fits-all approach to list views that looks slapdash compared to Apple Music’s nice album view; the now-playing screen is cluttered and still inexplicably hides the status bar on modern, large phones.

And don’t get me started on how they threw away their excellent iPad UI in favor of a blown-up version of the phone UI.

If Spotify is losing to Apple Music, the answer is a better core experience, not bundling Hulu.