> Why not include all the dollars required to get a working phone platform to billions of people on the planet? > Spotify wants to have all the positive aspects

> Why not include all the dollars required to get a working phone platform to billions of people on the planet? > Spotify wants to have all the positive aspects of the global Apple ecosystem but is not willing to pay a price for it. But this assumes that by creating something Apple has right to all the profits from it. For consumers, it's likely better if they didn't. And consumers are voters while corporations aren't.