Taylor Swift still has bad blood with Spotify over streaming music dispute

Pop star finds it ironic that 'multi-billion-dollar company' Apple reacted to criticism with humility, while 'the start-up with no cash flow reacted to criticism like a corporate machine'

The prospect of Taylor Swift and music streaming service Spotify ever ever getting back together looks remote, after Swift negatively compared the company's response to her withdrawal of her music in 2014 to that of her recent criticism of Apple.

"Apple treated me like I was a voice of a creative community that they actually cared about," Swift told Vanity Fair about the latter dispute, which saw Apple change its plans not to pay rightsholders for streams on its Apple Music service's free trial shortly after she criticised them in a blog post.