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The 30% cut is a lot, especially for apps with millions of users and recurring subscriptions, though I do believe Apple has a 15% cut for the second year and beyond. It's still a lot compared to a 2% credit card processing fee. I'd predict these fees come down somewhat over time and especially with scale. As for the services, Siri is opening up and I see no evidence Spotify is being treated any differently than any other app provider besides Apple itself. There are privacy issues there and I wouldn't want Spotify to get a direct line on what I say to Siri, as much as they might want it. Watch, it's a fairly constrained device, but forcing Apple to be a bit more proactive making APIs available fairly to app devs (no private Apple only APIs) would be a good thing. Homepod? I can play spotify from my phone to a Homepod. Or is Spotify complaining they're not native on the Homepod, a device which doesn't have app ability? If Spotify made their own speaker, should they be forced to have Apple music natively on it? As for customer info, I don't want Apple sharing my info with anyone, not even for apps I'm using. If the app wants info about me, they can ask and I can choose to share or not. End of story. Good luck getting Europe to budge on that one.