Bizarre responses in this thread to the plainly anti-competitive behavior of Apple. There have to be dozens of posts here along the lines of "I don't like xyz

Bizarre responses in this thread to the plainly anti-competitive behavior of Apple. There have to be dozens of posts here along the lines of "I don't like xyz about spotify[...]". Whether anyone of us likes Spotify has zero relevance when it comes to the fact if they should be subject to extractive rents, literally none. The EU or any other regulator finally needs to draw a line in the sand and make clear that manufacturing hardware doesn't entitle you to dictate people how they conduct financial transactions. How Spotify, its users and producers interact with each other is their business, and the idea that Apple has any right to insert themselves into the business transactions of third parties is absurd. Imagine every time you made any payment on a Windows machine, you had to pay Microsoft a 10% tax. Every game, every piece of audio, every paypal transcaction, for no reason at all merely because you happen to be on a windows computer you pay them a fee. We'd be rioting in the streets probably. We brought the hammer down on Microsoft for shipping a browser by default, how is Apple getting away with literally acting like a landlord on its devices?