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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’

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Post by musicale » Mon, Mar 18, 2019, 11:49 PM UTC

skrowl wrote: post #3

eg5fv4 wrote: post #2

Apple is a monopolist? What do they exactly have a monopoly on?

The ability to sell and distribute apps on iOS.

Sounds like what other game device manufacturers do, except that it's a lot easier to get a game into the iOS store than it is to get it into PSN or Nintendo's eShop.

I wonder... how hard is it to ship an app for Apple TV vs. other proprietary set-top boxes/platforms like XFINITY or TiVO?

Re: Spotify Responds to Apple’s Response over App Store, Calls Company ‘Monopolist’

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Post by anoncake » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 2:36 AM UTC

eg5fv4 wrote: post #4

skrowl wrote: post #3

Earlier 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.

In markets in which it is the only store, Lidl is of course a monopoly.

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