Re:Addressing Spotify’s Claims
by ajharrison on Friday March 15, 2019 @09:35AM
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> This is Apple exploiting a very lucrative market position, one that they did invest quite a lot of money in – and took quite a gamble – to create.
What's wrong with that?
Consumers get perma-shafted.
Counterargument: consumers are free to switch their entire phone to enjoy the rent-seeking behavior of another party on another platform.
Definitely no counter-arguments from me. Because of Apple's pricing insanity, I've made sure I own zero of their devices, and I think every person capable of independent thought should do the same.
Although growing on the pie seems a more apt metaphor. Defending 15% fees on second-year subscription is pretty difficult. There's no marketing, very little fraud risk. It's really rent-seeking behaviour – which of course is the commercial point of the walled garden approach.
This is Apple exploiting a very lucrative market position, one that they did invest quite a lot of money in – and took quite a gamble – to create.