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There's a lot of potential for anti-competitive practice here -- for example, Apple could theoretically prevent the Spotify app from transmitting audio over Blu
by zelias 10y ago
There's a lot of potential for anti-competitive practice here -- for example, Apple could theoretically prevent the Spotify app from transmitting audio over Bluetooth or Lightning, forcing users into the Apple Music ecosystem.
- amazingman 10y agoAnd if they do, they'll end up in antitrust courts in multiple countries while paying out a crushingly large and sustained PR cost.
- pjmlp 10y agoUsually such cases only apply to monopolies and Apple is very far from being one, considering the world market.
- jdmichal 10y agoAntitrust law is not just about monopolies, and it does not only apply to monopolies. Also, the world market wouldn't matter, because any individual case would be brought in a specific legal jurisdiction, where only that specific jurisdiction's market would be relevant.
- isseu 10y agoThey could have done this long ago..
- rimantas 10y agoAnd why would they do that? You can listen to your Spotify as much as you want as long as you buy iPhone.