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Originally Posted by kerowo
What is a fair price for the service they provide, which includes access to around a billion devices?
Yeah, the complaining about Apple's fee doesn't strike me as particularly convincing. On the other issues, though, it seems to me like Apple is engaging in textbook anti-competitive behavior. They're using their muscle as platform owner to subject service providers to fees and roadblocks that they, as Apple, do not have to deal with in offering competing services. Stuff like, forcing Spotify's product to be ****tier by not offering them Apple Watch access (until last September), or apparently preventing them from even mentioning the existence of a premium service in their app if they're not gonna use Apple's payment system (and pay their tax) to charge for it.
For the scary amount of control Google has over the internet, you don't see them doing stuff like this in the Android Play Store despite also having a service (YouTube Music) that competes with Spotify and providing access to more devices worldwide than Apple.