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The rich irony of this being that Apple has been cracking down on this behavior in the App Store. There was just a segment on it this morning on CNBC from the B
by partiallypro 6y ago
The rich irony of this being that Apple has been cracking down on this behavior in the App Store. There was just a segment on it this morning on CNBC from the BaseCamp founder.
- Closi 6y agoAnd are actively in a lawsuit with Spotify about this very thing
- g_p 6y agoAnd the EU has opened an antitrust investigation on this precise topic (and on their reserving the NFC hardware for their own payments service, which also extracts a fee, as I understand). This strikes me as textbook antitrust matters, that traditional laws are actually equipped to deal with. It doesn't seem legal to be the marketplace, and a provider on that marketplace, while granting yourself a 30% subsidy and building your own business based on the taxes collected by the other providers. Apple's crackdown, combined with the timing of this, is rather convenient (well, inconvenient for them).