Re:Addressing Spotify’s Claims
by baxtr on Friday March 15, 2019 @02:48AM
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Apple has created a massive platform with a large number of users over the last years. This has cost them a substantial amount of money and hard work. Why is not ok to monetize this Why is it ok to collect so many users on a platform that you end up as "unicorn" like Spotify without paying money for this acquisition channel? I don't get why Apple is viewed here as the "bad boy". You could argue the same with Google. Why do they take money for ads? Because they have the users. Same with the app store. Nobody forced Spotify to create an Apple app. It was THEIR strategy to grow on the Apple store.
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Re:Addressing Spotify’s Claims
by kinkrtyavimoodh on Friday March 15, 2019 @02:56AM
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> You could argue the same with Google. Why do they take money for ads? Because they have the users.
That's a bizarre analogy. The analogy would be that Google not only takes money from PnG for showing you an ad for Head and Shoulders, but then charges forces PnG to sell you the shampoo through Google AND takes a 30% cut on the revenue.
Well, only if google made the shampoo bottles and PNG provided the shampoo inside
No, only if Google offered the shelf for the shampoo bottle to stand on.
Precisely! AppStore is the shelf for Spotify...