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I have the iPhone now and have always used MacBooks, but so far I have refused to buy other products from them because they insist in keeping the ecosystem so closed. No Spotify support is why I’m not buying this. I’ve had Spotify for years and I’m not looking to switch. And Siri, unfortunately for me it’s now a selling point. It struggles so much on my phone that I can’t bring myself to use it often enough to care about it.

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They already announced earlier this year that they had a new program to integrate third-party music services. And in today’s event they specifically called out “services like Pandora and Amazon [Music]” as being available “in the coming months”. I don’t know whether Spotify is included, but I would hope so.

It’s part of the SiriKit Media Intents that was introduced in iOS 13.

Isn’t that for suggesting songs based on search results, or triggering songs with Siri on your phone? That’s not the same thing as using third-party music providers on HomePod.

That will be up to Spotify. I switched from Spotify to Apple Music because Spotify won’t support cellular streaming.

I would have switched back to Spotify but after the Apple One announcement, it’s too late. They lost me.

Strange. Spotify seems to work fine with my Apple Watch (Series 3)?

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