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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by malka on Friday April 30, 2021 @07:32AM (#26992107)
The problem is not the rules themselves.

The rules applies to Spotify, but not to Apple music. Apple should make Apple music a separate entity, and make it pay 30%.

Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by harywilke on Friday April 30, 2021 @07:56AM (#26992268)
No company should have the power to tell another company that they must split up into separate entities.
Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by dkirill on Friday April 30, 2021 @08:10AM (#26992380)
No company, but the government should be able to
Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by gambiting on Friday April 30, 2021 @08:08AM (#26992371)
Company? No. But a government can absolutely do this and it's a thing that happens all the time, even in the US.
Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by gcthomas on Friday April 30, 2021 @09:31AM (#26993210)
Apple has built itself up into a vertical monopoly, which used to be illegal. There is no good reason to allow anti-competitive behaviours. They shouldn't be allowed to host the platform and compete with applications at the same time.
Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by simondotau on Friday April 30, 2021 @11:36AM (#26994821)
And yet vertical integration is a big part of why Apple products are so loved. By denying the option of vertical integration, you’re forcing the totality of products we use to be incrementally a little bit more crap.
Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by malka on Friday April 30, 2021 @12:34PM (#26995677)
you can have vertical integration. But having an advantage at one layer should no be leveraged as advantage to another layer.

Apple is free to make a music player. But its music player should abide by the same rules as other players in the market.

Either Apple Music has its income cut by 30%, or no one does.

Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by simondotau on Friday April 30, 2021 @08:54PM (#27001733)
Personally I’d have no problem if Apple was forced to give all streaming music services like Spotify a sweetheart (below cost) percentage, say 5%, which wouldn’t cover the totality of merchant fees, gift voucher markups, and dealing with fraud.