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Funny that Epic, Spotify etc don't complain about the same cost levied by other platforms like Playstation, Xbox etc? Usually the strategy (mostly, but hardly
by gumby 3y ago
Funny that Epic, Spotify etc don't complain about the same cost levied by other platforms like Playstation, Xbox etc?
Usually the strategy (mostly, but hardly exclusively, followed by patent and other trolls) is to start with the smallest, weakest participants and then use them as a precident and then work your way up.
Starting with the richest of them all with decades of litigation experience seems foolish, and indeed it hasn't worked for Epic. Also a lot of people admire Apple, so why face that in the court of popular opinion when you could have build the case that they are the bad guys?
FWIW: I think Sweeny is a dick, that Spotify is financially precarious, and Apple is basically a great white: efficient, relentless, and not your friend.
- notyourwork 3y agoCan you expand on financially precarious? Would like to understand what this refers too.
- WanderPanda 3y agoI would assume margins are razor thin in the music streaming business, there are only very tame moats
- _aavaa_ 3y agoThey are being squeezed both by the app store gatekeepers who have a monopoly, in all but name, over distribution avenues, and by the music labels who have monopoly power over most artists.
- mlyle 3y agoYup, being wedged between monopsony and a music oligopoly can't be fun.
- julienreszka 3y agothey're not profitable
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