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Why would spotify support a feature that competes against them? Does apple music support spotify connect?

dijit 3y ago
If you're serious: because third party apps can absolutely kill first party ones, and they do, all the time. Netflix remains the dominant player over Apple TV+, for example. Chrome remains more dominant than Safari. Outside of Apples specific ecosystem: Do you know anyone who seriously uses Windows Media Player or built-in Calendar/Mail apps? (Outlook is not the built-in). If your third party app is better and has better social capital: it can kill the first-party app. I'm just forgetting which ones completely died because: they are history.
- tristan957 3y ago
  Where are you getting the figures that Chrome is more dominant than Safari on Apple devices?
  - dijit 3y ago
    Good question! Chrome has 77% market share across desktop operating systems & Safari has 8%: https://kinsta.com/browser-market-share/ https://kinsta.com/browser-market-share/ OSX has 16% market share which would indicate thar its somewhere ~around 50% of OSX users using Safari: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide The inference being made here of course that all the remaining people not using Safari are using Chrome which is or course not true; but it shows somewhat the fragility of the incumbent software: as Safari is actually quite good for users, chrome has very few feature advantages compared.
    - frompom 3y ago
      btw using statcounter for browser market share so you're comparing apples to apples says Safari usage is around 19%: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
      - dijit 3y ago
        If OSX has 16% desktop operating system share how can Safari have 19% desktop browser share?
        frompom 3y ago
        They aren't my stats. Just pointing out using one stat from source A and another stat from source B to draw a conclusion when source A has both stats seems like hunting for stats that support a predetermined conclusion.

If you're serious: because third party apps can absolutely kill first party ones, and they do, all the time. Netflix remains the dominant player over Apple TV+, for example. Chrome remains more dominant than Safari. Outside of Apples specific ecosystem: Do you know anyone who seriously uses Windows Media Player or built-in Calendar/Mail apps? (Outlook is not the built-in). If your third party app is better and has better social capital: it can kill the first-party app. I'm just forgetting which ones completely died because: they are history.

tristan957 3y ago
Where are you getting the figures that Chrome is more dominant than Safari on Apple devices?
- dijit 3y ago
  Good question! Chrome has 77% market share across desktop operating systems & Safari has 8%: https://kinsta.com/browser-market-share/ https://kinsta.com/browser-market-share/ OSX has 16% market share which would indicate thar its somewhere ~around 50% of OSX users using Safari: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide The inference being made here of course that all the remaining people not using Safari are using Chrome which is or course not true; but it shows somewhat the fragility of the incumbent software: as Safari is actually quite good for users, chrome has very few feature advantages compared.
  - frompom 3y ago
    btw using statcounter for browser market share so you're comparing apples to apples says Safari usage is around 19%: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
    - dijit 3y ago
      If OSX has 16% desktop operating system share how can Safari have 19% desktop browser share?
      - frompom 3y ago
        They aren't my stats. Just pointing out using one stat from source A and another stat from source B to draw a conclusion when source A has both stats seems like hunting for stats that support a predetermined conclusion.