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The App Store, Spotify, and Europe's thriving digital music market

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Re: The App Store, Spotify, and Europe's thriving digital music market

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Post by beardyw »

nexneo wrote: post #4

Entire press release sounds like Spotify is some biggest company and Apple is a startup being crushed by Spotify. Apple's attitude towards developers complaining about App Store was largely "Deal with it" but seems like they themselves can't deal with it.

Ha, I didn't notice what the site was. I thought these folks have got the story wrong. Maybe that's how they think.

Re: The App Store, Spotify, and Europe's thriving digital music market

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Post by andrejguran »

The press release somehow forgot to touch the core of the fine: apple customers paid higher subscription fee for apple music than they would for Spotify because it's against app store policy to inform that Spotify has a cheaper subscription if they don't want to pay apple 30% cut...

Re: The App Store, Spotify, and Europe's thriving digital music market

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Post by goosedragons »

nexneo wrote: post #4

Entire press release sounds like Spotify is some biggest company and Apple is a startup being crushed by Spotify. Apple's attitude towards developers complaining about App Store was largely "Deal with it" but seems like they themselves can't deal with it.

I do find it hilarious that Apple expects companies to fork over 30% of the price of renting a movie in an app and considers that "fair" and then on platforms where THEY would have to fork over 30% (e.g., Apple TV app on Google TV) they don't let you rent at all. So everyone gets a shittier worse experience everywhere on the off-chance they can extract rent.

Re: The App Store, Spotify, and Europe's thriving digital music market

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Post by andreime »

Apple fights hard to not allow users to install from other sources on devices they own, so they can charge rent from developers, then complains when some apps that are too big for them to control are installed from the sole app store.

The solution is pretty simple, let people use the devices they own as they want; allow multiple app stores; allow people to download binaries and install on their devices.

Re: The App Store, Spotify, and Europe's thriving digital music market

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Post by nojito »

andrejguran wrote: post #6

The press release somehow forgot to touch the core of the fine: apple customers paid higher subscription fee for apple music than they would for Spotify because it's against app store policy to inform that Spotify has a cheaper subscription if they don't want to pay apple 30% cut...

Spotify doesn’t pay Apple anything and yet has a 56% share of the EU market.
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