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The problem is not the rules themselves. The rules applies to Spotify, but not to Apple music. Apple should make Apple music a separate entity, and make it pay
by malka 5y ago
The problem is not the rules themselves.
The rules applies to Spotify, but not to Apple music.
Apple should make Apple music a separate entity, and make it pay 30%.
- harywilke 5y agoNo company should have the power to tell another company that they must split up into separate entities.
- gambiting 5y agoCompany? No. But a government can absolutely do this and it's a thing that happens all the time, even in the US.
- dkirill 5y agoNo company, but the government should be able to
- gcthomas 5y agoApple has built itself up into a vertical monopoly, which used to be illegal. There is no good reason to allow anti-competitive behaviours. They shouldn't be allowed to host the platform and compete with applications at the same time.
- simondotau 5y agoAnd yet vertical integration is a big part of why Apple products are so loved. By denying the option of vertical integration, you’re forcing the totality of products we use to be incrementally a little bit more crap.
- malka 5y agoyou can have vertical integration. But having an advantage at one layer should no be leveraged as advantage to another layer. Apple is free to make a music player. But its music player should abide by the same rules as other players in the market. Either Apple Music has its income cut by 30%, or no one does.
- simondotau 5y agoPersonally I’d have no problem if Apple was forced to give all streaming music services like Spotify a sweetheart (below cost) percentage, say 5%, which wouldn’t cover the totality of merchant fees, gift voucher markups, and dealing with fraud.