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“In all other storefronts, streaming music apps and their metadata may not include buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms other than in-app purchase.”

Juli Clovermacrumors.com ↗

Spotify can now link to its own website, but only in the EEA and only because the European Commission fined Apple $2 billion in March. Everyone else still gets the anti-steering rules. Apple accuses Spotify of wanting to pay Apple nothing. Retro emulators get approved worldwide on the same day, a nice distraction from a rule change Apple was forced into.