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EU's antitrust head is ignoring Spotify's dominance and wants to punish Apple instead
It's undeniable that leaders trying their best to "create a fair market" don't know what the hell they are doing or understand the software industry. Spotify has dominance on all platforms, so what do they need even more assistance on the Apple platform? Quite puzzled by this in the first place.foregoneconclusion said:"Vestager stressed that she is not involved in the US DOJ case. But she did have a better answer than the most recent proponent of breaking up Apple's non-existent monopoly, Senator Elizabeth Warren.
"I think what we see is that there are indeed very different and very separate markets when it comes to smartphones," said Vestager, "and [a] very high end, very expensive phone is not in the same market as a very, you know, affordable, cheaper phone."
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LOL...Vestager's "better answer" is parroting the DOJ approach to its lawsuit, i.e., claiming Apple's monopoly is in a pricing segment of the market and not the overall market.
"Spotify doesn't pay 30% for all customers it holds, and not even close to a majority of them. That 30% applies to the first year of a maintained subscription, and it pays 15% on subscribers that it has held for over a year."
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There's no mystery about Spotify and 30% commissions. Their own timetoplayfair web site states that they only used IAP on iOS for two years out of the fifteen that they've offered the app on the App Store. So they were only subject to Apple's commission for two years. It is a FACT that Spotify's preferred method for customer payments for subscriptions on iOS was to have them pay on the internet and entirely avoid Apple's commission.
