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To me it seems anti-competitive to disallow streaming services to use their own payment model. I expect a lawsuit to come from this and within the next two year
by Mandatum 10y ago
To me it seems anti-competitive to disallow streaming services to use their own payment model. I expect a lawsuit to come from this and within the next two years either Spotify will be Daenerys, Breaker of Chains or Erlich Bachman, Waster of Cash.
It seems like Apple have created a monopoly within their own ecosystem. Whether their ecosystem is too big to be monopolised will be up to the lawyers as regulations are put in place. I expect American government to allow Apple to keep their monopoly as it'd be "unfair" to not let a company do what it likes with their own products.
If however the government decided this was a monopoly and regulations to be put in place, I expect Apple to get around this by "opening up" their eco system by making customers resign all Apple support for their products if they decide to "break out". Which is fair enough.
- coldtea 10y ago>It seems like Apple have created a monopoly within their own ecosystem. There's no such thing as a "monopoly within an ecosystem". Either you cover the majority of the full market (not of your market), and you're a monopoly, or you don't. If you don't, then within your own platforms, shops, and premises it can be your way or the highway. Nobody has a right to tell you what to sell or not sell, and how much to charge for things in your own shop -- kind of like with a physical shop. It's not Apple wanting Spotify to be sold through their platform/store and asking them -- it's Spotify wanting to take part in Apple's marketplace.