Spotify Responds to Apple’s Response over App Store, Calls Company ‘Monopolist’
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Re: Spotify Responds to Apple’s Response over App Store, Calls Company ‘Monopolist’
#2Apple is a monopolist? What do they exactly have a monopoly on?
Re: Spotify Responds to Apple’s Response over App Store, Calls Company ‘Monopolist’
#3Apple is a monopolist? What do they exactly have a monopoly on?
The ability to sell and distribute apps on iOS.
Re: Spotify Responds to Apple’s Response over App Store, Calls Company ‘Monopolist’
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#5Back and forth discussions are useless unless European Comission takes an action.
Moreover, I dont understand why users of spotify or another apps on iOS are necessarily customers of Apple. How about users who visit a website using a browser on an Apple device?
Re: Spotify Responds to Apple’s Response over App Store, Calls Company ‘Monopolist’
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
The ability to sell and distribute apps on iOS.
Lidl also decides what goes inside their stores. Does that mean Lidl is a monopoly? iOS itself is not a monopoly.
Perhaps you should compare to other OSs rather than a physical supermarket.
On Android, you can turn on "Unknown Sources" & install Amazon App Store, F-Droid, Humble Bundle's store, etc. You can even download .apks directly from developers cough YouPorn, XNXX, etc cough.
On Windows, you have Microsoft's store built into Windows 10, but you can easily download a .exe or .msi from a developer's site and install it.
On Linux, most distros come with a package manager, but there are a variety of ways to install apps outside the package manager your distro comes with.
Even on macOS, you can easily download a .dmg from a developer's site and have it installed in a few clicks if you want to install something outside the built-in app store.
On iOS you get Apple's store or.... a really difficult jailbreak process that sometimes takes months to come out after a new iOS version. It's pretty obviously more like a monopoly in this regard compared to the former.
Re: Spotify Responds to Apple’s Response over App Store, Calls Company ‘Monopolist’
#7Back and forth discussions are useless unless European Comission takes an action. Moreover, I dont understand why users of spotify or another apps on iOS are necessarily customers of Apple. How about users who visit a website using a browser on an Apple device?
They're customers of Apple by virtue of owning an iOS device and thus being tied to Apple's app store.
Re: Spotify Responds to Apple’s Response over App Store, Calls Company ‘Monopolist’
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lidl also decides what goes inside their stores. Does that mean Lidl is a monopoly? iOS itself is not a monopoly.
Perhaps you should compare to other OSs rather than a physical supermarket. On Android, you can turn on "Unknown Sources" & install Amazon App Store, F-Droid, Humble Bundle's store, etc. You can even download .apks directly from developers cough YouPorn, XNXX, etc cough . On Windows, you have Microsoft's store built into Windows 10, but you can easily download a .exe or .msi from a developer's site and install it. On…
Okay, that's cool, but iOS is not a monopoly, and in fact in certain places of Europe it's very far from being one, so I don't see how Apple are monopolists.
You could consider that not allowing people to install apps from outside the App Store is "taking advantage of a position of monopoly", which is illegal depending on the circumstances, but iOS does not have a monopoly.
Re: Spotify Responds to Apple’s Response over App Store, Calls Company ‘Monopolist’
#9So who's to blame for HomePod + Siri working only with iTunes and Apple music?
Siri won't control Spotify at all, and Spotify playback on HomePod is only possible indirectly through AirPlay2, which is a buggy pile of crap.
Re: Spotify Responds to Apple’s Response over App Store, Calls Company ‘Monopolist’
#10So who's to blame for HomePod + Siri working only with iTunes and Apple music? Siri won't control Spotify at all, and Spotify playback on HomePod is only possible indirectly through AirPlay2, which is a buggy pile of crap.
I hope the HomePod closed ecosystem they are focused on relegates that platform to the dustbin of history like the poorly introduced Apple iPod Hi-Fi.