Court orders Apple to open App Store to competition, Epic Games wins

[The Gr8t 1]

Ah I thought I would get a response like this. Spotify the Billion dollar company has "the customers" best interest at heart........ Doubt that my friend. Do a bit of research and see how well they actual pay their artists compare to other platforms. With your logic we should hold them accountable and stop the big, bad company from having an monopoly and pay a fair price/wage for the music they offer.

Also if you do some more research on the fact that app devs make way more $ on Apples IOS platform compared to android. Its not only about total users its about how much each user spends per app on the different platforms. Quick search for you "Spending on iPhone users accounted for 68.13% of all consumer spending on mobile apps, while Android remained with a 31.87% share of app spending worldwide in 2024." - https://backlinko.com/iphone-vs-android-statistics

Best part Spotify doesn't break down their revenue by platforms in their financials at least from what I have seen......

As for the Costco comment I will leave that one for another day.

Anyway you all have a great day.

P.S I do believe big Corps should be held accountable if they do shady stuff

 

[ScottSoapbox]

Ah I thought I would get a response like this. Spotify the Billion dollar company has "the customers" best interest at heart........ Doubt that my friend. Do a bit of research and see how well they actual pay their artists compare to other platforms. With your logic we should hold them accountable and stop the big, bad company from having an monopoly and pay a fair price/wage for the music they offer.

Also if you do some more research on the fact that app devs make way more $ on Apples IOS platform compared to android. Its not only about total users its about how much each user spends per app on the different platforms. Quick search for you "Spending on iPhone users accounted for 68.13% of all consumer spending on mobile apps, while Android remained with a 31.87% share of app spending worldwide in 2024." - https://backlinko.com/iphone-vs-android-statistics

Best part Spotify doesn't break down their revenue by platforms in their financials at least from what I have seen......

As for the Costco comment I will leave that one for another day.

Anyway you all have a great day.

Yeah, Spotify does take advantage of artists. But not Apple which was your argument.

And their customers' love Spotify. The artists are not the customers but the product, which is your new argument.

Yes, there is some potential for monopoly power with Spotify but you still have
Spotify
Apple Music
Amazon Music (Unlimited & Prime)
YouTube Music
Pandora
Tidal
Deezer
SoundCloud
iHeartRadio
Napster (formerly Rhapsody)
Qobuz
Audiomack
Mixcloud
SoundClick
Bandcamp
ReverbNation

verses iOS and Android. See the difference?

Finally, Apple commanding 68% of revenue only strengthens the argument to regulate them, so thanks for making another point in my favor.

 

[Axeia]

 

[The Gr8t 1]

Yeah, Spotify does take advantage of artists. But not Apple which was your argument.

And their customers' love Spotify. The artists are not the customers but the product, which is your new argument.

Yes, there is some potential for monopoly power with Spotify but you still have
Spotify
Apple Music
Amazon Music (Unlimited & Prime)
YouTube Music
Pandora
Tidal
Deezer
SoundCloud
iHeartRadio
Napster (formerly Rhapsody)
Qobuz
Audiomack
Mixcloud
SoundClick
Bandcamp
ReverbNation

verses iOS and Android. See the difference?

Finally, Apple commanding 68% of revenue only strengthens the argument to regulate them, so thanks for making another point in my favor.

See you still don't get it...... Its Apple's store/platform in which they built on their own from the ground up and in doing so revolutionized the wireless industry with it. Then companies like Spotify apply to have their app/service sold in Apple store and in doing so agree to Apple's contract (TOS) in which Apple will take 30% but once they get big enough just like Epic they cry because they want more $ for themselves and then preach to the customers "we are doing it for you guys the customers" to get lower or remove all % cuts..... Its BS they are just as greedy as the rest but they pretend they're not be all in the name of the customer. I didn't hear Spotify or Epic stating they will pass all of the savings to the customer once they won the court case like in Europe nor in USA.

Anyway I'm moving now from this discussion with you my friend. Maybe we may agree on another topic on here some day.

Have yourself a nice day.