"The rest are ad supported and Apple gets 0% of the ad revenue." The vast bulk of the rest likely signed up elsewhere and aren't free users. I signed up online

"The rest are ad supported and Apple gets 0% of the ad revenue." The vast bulk of the rest likely signed up elsewhere and aren't free users. I signed up online, as I imagine most people do for most services. I'm not sure if Spotify even had an app subscription at the time, though even if it did I wouldn't have used it. I signed up for Netflix, Skillshare, Prime, Disney+, etc, all on their own sites. Even my Microsoft Office apps I bought a multi-year subscription on some site (saving something like 40% over the app fees). There is zero value for me subscribing to things like that through Apple. Actually negative value. If it's some single-platform little app that needs a subscription to use the beautifier filter or something, sure, provide that "value". "there are 199 Spotify app users Apple is distributing the App to for which they get nothing" They have gotten hundreds of billions in purchases from consumers, all but the very first purchases predicated on a robust and healthy app ecosystem. Apple runs the app store for me, the guy who buys their devices. They are certainly getting loads for it. It is perverse that Apple bars notifying users that they can subscribe elsewhere, and eventually that is going to be regulatory eliminated.