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Re:Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo by wilsonnb3 on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @08:47PM (#33811185)
> Compensating artists fairly starts by kicking out useless middlemen, and Apple plays that role in this instance.

Spotify needs the cooperation of the major record labels to operate and they have no interest in compensating artists fairly or kicking middlemen out of the process.

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Re:Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo by johnbellone on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @09:33PM (#33811597)
And it isn’t like Apple hasn’t tried using their weight before to fix market prices in their favor. See the debacle with eBooks.
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Re:Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo by smoldesu on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @08:49PM (#33811198)
Hard to say, Apple never gave them a chance.
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Re:Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo by acdha on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @10:18PM (#33811914)
Do they do it on Android or desktops? They’d have a much stronger moral case if they said that on every other platform they take the cut they’d give Apple and forward it to the artist instead.
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