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Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing

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Re: Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing

#33

Post by cletus »

This is smart and what Apple should've done. Apple is clearly beholden to the massive cash cow that the App Store has become. Apple's attempts at complying with various orders are that their cut should be 27% and the payment processor can have 3%. That's ridiculous and is going to get them into trouble.

You see this pattern repeatedly and people will bring up things like the Pareto Principle or argue it's better to squeeze the profits for as long as you can but ultimately some government or court will take away your monopoly.

As someone in possession of such a monopoly it is always better for you to control how that happens. Having it decided for you could be truly disastrous. Any government investigation could widen in scope to areas it otherwise wouldn't.

I predict App Store cuts will ultimately drop to a far more reasonable 10-15% including payment processing or 5-10% without.

Re: Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing

#34

Post by judge2020 »

chews wrote: post #26
paxys wrote: post #10

Crazy that this new revolutionary "first of its kind" feature is – letting the user pick between two payment processors.

Basic choice for payments became a discount offering for Google cloud use.... Total monopolistic behavior

While that's alluded to in some other comments there is 0 proof of this - it'd be a huge issue if the price for choosing another payment processor (while still likely paying Google their Store % cut on the backend) is being an enterprise customer of a completely separate business unit.

Re: Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing

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Post by drusepth »

paxys wrote: post #10

Crazy that this new revolutionary "first of its kind" feature is – letting the user pick between two payment processors.

I don't understand how this is a "feature". Is the price different, or the features gained different, or does it just determine who ends up getting what % cut? I can't imagine most people actually care whether Google or Spotify is getting a bigger piece of the same price they're paying either way.

Re: Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing

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Post by javert »

> Spotify has been publicly advocating for platform fairness

Big companies arguing for "fairness" is absurd and in the long run it will blow up in their faces.

In a society that prioritizes "fairness" over capitalism, Spotify and Google are not allowed to exist.

Re: Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing

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cletus wrote: post #33

This is smart and what Apple should've done. Apple is clearly beholden to the massive cash cow that the App Store has become. Apple's attempts at complying with various orders are that their cut should be 27% and the payment processor can have 3%. That's ridiculous and is going to get them into trouble. You see this pattern repeatedly and people will bring up things like the Pareto Principle or argue it's better to s…

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