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If by anybody you include their own customers... Yes. The case here is driven mostly by Spotify who claim (my paraphrasing) they cannot benefit Apple customers
by 627467 6y ago
If by anybody you include their own customers... Yes.
The case here is driven mostly by Spotify who claim (my paraphrasing) they cannot benefit Apple customers equaly because of Apple restrictive practices and fee model.
You may not have purchased a Apple device with intention to use with Spotify, but others may.
(Now extrapolate the Spotify story to any appmaker who wish to sell to Apple customers)
- scarface74 6y agoSpotify in fact doesn’t go through the App Store for purchases. The better question is why hasn’t Spotify made a decent watch app that can stream directly to it and download music for off line use? Apple added the ability last year. How much of a cut does Spotify take from musicians to be on its platform?
- 627467 6y agoAnd Spotify may well be target of investigation one day. They are also in the monopolistic platform business model.
- Apocryphon 6y agoAnd like the Apple App Store, they also benefit from taking a substantial cut from their IP creators.
- 627467 6y agoIn my view, the percentages are not the biggest factors that lead to this situation (although it adds to the outrage when the monopolistic accusations are thrown around). The problem is: all of these big techs want to be a platform, and all of them sell (to their investors) the idea that their platform will be very profitable precisely because it will lock the participants inside a ecosystem hard to escape from. Apple wasn't always in this business.
- scarface74 6y agoApple has been a platform since iPod+iTunes? Spotify also wants to be a “platform”. The creators get a far smaller percentage and they are locking up “podcasts” behind their “walled garden”
- Apocryphon 6y agoAs discussed literally two comments above, > And Spotify may well be target of investigation one day. They are also in the monopolistic platform business model.