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Apple's actions are anti-competitive. Spotify is a very good example. Instead of making a better product, Apple is acting to appropriate other businesses. Altho
by talkingtab 3y ago
Apple's actions are anti-competitive. Spotify is a very good example. Instead of making a better product, Apple is acting to appropriate other businesses. Although the object of Apple's action is companies that try to make money that Apple wants, it is the users, the customers who pay. Apple is an anti-user platform. They are not alone in this of course.
How do we change this? I, as a user, am aggrieved that Apple sells (not lends) me a product and then takes actions that make product less useful and more costly. Maybe Spotify and companies should simply set up a website so it is easy for me to take Apple to small claims court? The facts of Apple's anti-competitive practices are certainly clearly laid out in the EU's action, so that should not be hard.
I would sign up.
- snapcaster 3y agoI just don't agree that it's an anti-user platform. I have my own opinions on this, but really just talk to some apple users they're all happy with their platform Why do you have to change it? As a user if you don't like walled gardens or restrictions just buy another phone? why do you insist on shitting up my walled garden just go use android!
- threeseed 3y agoThe whole reason companies like Spotify are making a fuss about this is because Apple is making better products. If it wasn't the case Spotify would dominate the market all to itself. But Spotify has 30% market share, Apple Music 15%. And it's because for example Apple has lossless audio, Dolby Atmos etc. Not because of any unfair competition.
- IshKebab 3y agoWhat do you think 99% of users care about more? Lossless audio, or a 30% markup?