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Re:Apple Music Overtakes Spotify in U.S. Subscribers by BoorishBears on Friday April 05, 2019 @01:02PM (#19584594)
Eh, while I’m staunchly against Apple's integrations, the App Store isn’t a relevant factor imo.

These are things inside one store, as in Spotify and Apple Music are both for sale in the one store, and while Apple takes a cut, which could force Spotify to increase their price, they do have full pricing autonomy.

I’m not entirely against the fact that Apple has a walled garden in the form of the App Store, just because they do seem to invest in keeping a certain standard of quality unlike Google, but I’d say that’s a separate issue.

And Spotify probably doesn’t want to be in the store business anyways even if Apple allowed it, Epic Games is probably the first major case I heard of a company doing similar on Android (where it’s allowed) and almost immediately they opened a security vulnerability into everyone’s phones so...

Re:Apple Music Overtakes Spotify in U.S. Subscribers by lostmyoldone on Friday April 05, 2019 @01:52PM (#19585242)
I don't really understand your counter argument. As I was responding to a comment regarding similarities between the app store and a common retail store, I can't see how the app store could ever be irrelevant in this particular comparison?
Re:Apple Music Overtakes Spotify in U.S. Subscribers by BoorishBears on Friday April 05, 2019 @02:01PM (#19585342)
> As I was responding to a comment regarding similarities between the app store and a common retail store

I read that comment as regarding similarities between two different apps that stream music, and two different brands of the same product in a store.

The store the two brands are in isn't really relevant past the fact the same company that that owns the store owns one of the brands, and certainly the nature of the store doesn't affect the comparison.