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Re:Addressing Spotify’s Claims by FireBeyond on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:35PM (#19401303)
It's not about how much dominance it has. It treats its own music platform differently (not subject to Apple Store fees) than any other music platform.

Like Microsoft bundling/treating IE differently to any other browser on its platform.

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Re:Addressing Spotify’s Claims by detaro on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:56PM (#19401576)
Lots of regulations in that area are tied to market influence. The Microsoft case was about Microsoft pushing IE through their dominance in PC sales.
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Re:Addressing Spotify’s Claims by Benjammer on Friday March 15, 2019 @03:37PM (#19403390)
It feels like 99% of people are skipping over this necessary condition of Apple being a "dominant undertaking," as defined by EU law, which seems very tenuous at best, no matter how you try to frame the relevant market.
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