EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after Spotify complaint

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.

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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.

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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.

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