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Re:Addressing Spotify’s Claims by sjwright on Friday March 15, 2019 @08:32AM (#19399068)
From what you're saying it sounds like Spotify should have built a smartphone platform. It's not free for Apple to build and maintain the App Store and everything that entails—from API documentation to the rock solid software platform that is being kept up to date and is astonishingly robust compared to any internet-connected consumer platform that came before it.

Some apps pay for that effort with a cut of the app's retail price. Spotify pays for it with the tiny fraction of their users which (a) pay for it at all and (b) pay for it through their iOS device.

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Re:Addressing Spotify’s Claims by Orphis on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:08AM (#19399797)
It's not free to build a platform, but I believe the cost has already been paid by the users when they buy their device.

No reason to have users pay twice, when they buy their device and when they try to use services on the device they already have.

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Re:Addressing Spotify’s Claims by sjwright on Friday March 15, 2019 @11:13PM (#19406173)
The cost for the hardware platform is paid by the customer when they buy the phone.

The cost for the store platform is paid by the developers when they sell the app.

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