> The way this information is displayed feels very dishonest to me. There's definitely some weirdness here. For example, the "1M Spotify Streams" pie obfuscate

> The way this information is displayed feels very dishonest to me. There's definitely some weirdness here. For example, the "1M Spotify Streams" pie obfuscates that Spotify's share is 50% by making it look closer to 37%. > Apple's cut is fine, being able to take that cut directly from your competition offering you a clear and unfair competitive advantage is not. Spotify has never paid Apple a penny. In 2016, Spotify turned off that feature. Before that, they passed along that cost to customers who subscribed via App Store. There's zero evidence that Spotify handed Apple a competitive advantage by preventing their customers from subscribing via App Store. As Variety noted in 2019, less than 1% of Spotify subscribers signed up via App Store. https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/apple-spotify-fees-subscribers-app-store-tax-complaint-1203251621/ https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/apple-spotify-fees-sub... > Spotify's pie is 28% smaller than Apple's which is suspiciously close to the app store fee. As the same Variety article notes, Apple's cut of Spotify subscription fees attributable to App Store was only 15%. And again, Spotify just passed this cost directly to their customers who subscribed via App Store, just as X does today.