>Can you provide a software example? Amazon are already very, very close to that state of play - developers within Amazon are required to design their infrastr

>Can you provide a software example? Amazon are already very, very close to that state of play - developers within Amazon are required to design their infrastructure based on standard APIs, to facilitate the commercialisation of those systems via AWS. Chinese walls are commonplace in any kind of reverse-engineering as a protection against claims of copyright infringement. >For Apple, that's a fictitious loss and their actual cash flow is a positive $0.25. For Spotify, that $0.05 represents an actual nickle they have to give someone else. Apple can continue on doing that indefinitely while Spotify can't. That would constitute predatory pricing, which is illegal under EU competition law.