Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair

Re:Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair by xrmagnum on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @09:14AM (#19378243)

More than a decade ago, the EU forced Microsoft to let people choose their browser on a Windows machine with a fresh install. Not only that but the list of choices was randomly sorted so that IE would not be the first listed.

> Why do I have to allow you to develop software for my proprietary hardware, just because it's technically possible?

Of course if you were Apple, you would not want to do it. But, that’s what antitrust laws are for. As a consumer they are valuable: how long have people been waiting to use Spotify their Apple Watch?

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Re:Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair by spac on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @09:37AM (#19378455)

On my opinion there is no comparison with the dominance MS in the OS market and Apple, I think Apple’ market share is very far from the 90+% windows enjoyed

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Re:Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair by Mindwipe on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @11:18AM (#19379503)

EU antitrust law doesn't require dominance. It requires the ability to materially affect market pricing, and companies with minority market share have previously been found against.

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Re:Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair by AsyncAwait on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @09:56AM (#19378610)

Apple has a monopoly on iOS devices, just like MS had on the PC.

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Re:Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair by georgespencer on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @09:18AM (#19378285)

I use Spotify on my Apple Watch all the time. But there isn't the particular integration which Spotify wants: you can't store music on it.

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