3 ms·
I am not sure of what can be done though in hardware at least. Software, certainly there can be regulation to keep the playing field open so companies like Spot
by actuator 6y ago
I am not sure of what can be done though in hardware at least. Software, certainly there can be regulation to keep the playing field open so companies like Spotify can survive on their own merit.
Hardware, maybe by enforcing APIs to be accessible to all hardware manufacturers. But at the end of the day, if they build a new successful product either inhouse/acquisition, should it be stopped just because they have money/brand loyalty. I don't agree with that.
- shmerl 6y agoThey did a number lock-in driven things that clearly have global damaging effect. Like they refused to support Vulkan, they were the main force behind sabotaging using SPIR-V for WebGPU, they also were quite harmful for DASH and a number of other Web related standardization efforts, just because they wanted to cement their lock-in control. Same applies to their ban on competing browsers in their application store which should have been simply forbidden by anti-trust a long time ago. When a company so consistently behaves in such nasty manner, I'd say they don't deserve any respect, let alone loyalty.
- actuator 6y agoAh, they certainly don't have my loyalty, or any company for that matter. I try to diversify the devices/services I use so that one company doesn't have power over my daily life and I can switch over easily if I want.
- scarface74 6y agoYou know Spotify also charges the music industry the same 30% to be on their platform that Apple charges? Can I pay a $99 one time fee and bypass Spotify’s 30% and get my share of all of Spotify’s users subscription fee? Like Spotify does with respect to Apple?