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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by sixstringtheory on Friday April 30, 2021 @01:58PM (#26996950)
Disagree. If Apple only had their Music app, they wouldn’t have to maintain the whole ecosystem that comes along with the app store that allows Spotify to exist as an iOS app. Maintaining that system is where the 30% goes. Would anyone then say Apple had an unfair advantage as to who could have a streaming platform on iOS?

Spotify would be free then and are now to make a web based player like youtube or soundcloud.

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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by fastball on Friday April 30, 2021 @03:11PM (#26997926)
Strange how Spotify managed to create and distribute their app entirely without Apple's "help" on macOS, but would somehow be incapable of doing the same on iOS.
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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by pyrale on Friday April 30, 2021 @05:56PM (#26999892)
> Maintaining that system is where the 30% goes.

Let's be honest here, the 30% spent by Europeans is mostly going to anonymous bank accounts in Jersey.

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