Still, it’s the Apple Watch where Spotify’s users are likely feeling it the most.
Similarly, while iOS 14 has opened the door to third-party music services on HomePod, both Pandora and Deezer have completely beat it to the punch. Apple added the ability for third-party music apps to use Siri in late 2019 with the release of iOS 13, yet Spotify didn’t add the feature until several months after competitors like Pandora. The Apple Watch is far from the only area in which Spotify has been dragging its heels.
Everyone else was stuck toting along their iPhone or living without access to Spotify when it wasn’t nearby. To be fair, last fall’s addition was still a nice bonus for workout enthusiasts who wanted to take a run without their iPhone - as long as they had a cellular Apple Watch model, of course. In other words, with last November’s update to the Spotify for watchOS, Premium users could stream music over Wi-Fi or cellular, but they’d be out of luck if they were away from a Wi-Fi connection and didn’t have a cellular-capable Apple Watch - or if they simply didn’t want to eat up their data plan streaming music while on the go.
