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Unless they can establish theft of IP, I don’t think that Eleftheriou has any chance to win on the grounds of monopolistic behavior. Apple can claim that they w

Unless they can establish theft of IP, I don’t think that Eleftheriou has any chance to win on the grounds of monopolistic behavior. Apple can claim that they were developing for years the feature and did not release it for UX reasons. Apple also does not charge for the app, so consumers were not harmed. I think that spotify has a much stronger case, given the fact that apple is selling a directly competing service with an obvious price and bundling / integration advantage

probably_wrong 5y ago
> Apple also does not charge for the app, so consumers were not harmed. As far as I understand, those two things are unrelated. Lack of competition by itself is considered to hurt consumers. Assuming that Apple's choice was based on monopolistic behavior (which is for the courts to decide), whether they got money while doing it is not relevant.