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EU Fines Apple $2 Billion for Anti-Competitive Behavior Toward Spotify
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If Steve Jobs was alive, Apple would’ve pulled out of EU in retaliation.
Would not be surprised if Apple appeals this and instead of paying the fine, just leaves EU altogether.
Typical Spotify’s behavior of trying to kill off a competitor.
Would not be surprised if Apple appeals this and instead of paying the fine, just leaves EU altogether.
Typical Spotify’s behavior of trying to kill off a competitor.
It's quite telling that the EU is protecting Spotify (EU company), which has a monopoly on music streaming.
So what? That’s not a good excuse for having anticompetitive behaviour that hurts consumers.
Apple is not a monopoly in any of the markets they compete in. In almost every market from smartphones, to tablets, to computers, they only have a small % of the market share.
Google is a monopoly in search engines. Microsoft is a monopoly in computer OS, and so on. Android has a large market share on smartphones. Spotify has over 50% market share in EU. If you claim Apple is a monopoly because it controls its own ecosystem, then you don't understand what a monopoly is.
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The only reason the EU exists is because Germany has saved the EU multiple times. But this time, Germany is in a recession themselves.
So the EU will fall as their paymeister (Germany) is in trouble. Italy is crap and France is also pointing towards a potential recession.
Might not be a bad idea to just pull out of the EU as in the long run, the EU doesn't look so good.
I'll ask again, as I've asked you several times now. Can you point me to any legitimate source that claims that Apple has a monopoly? (of course you can't, because Apple doesn't have a monopoly).
Here comes the American conspiracy theories 🥱
it’s not US v EU, chill out.
Indeed, Spotify (EU company) is by far more close to being a "monopolist" as they have by far the largest market share in music streaming.
You can tell this is all political driven as the EU sucks in Tech.
Late 90’s? Microsoft are still horrible. Wave you booted up a brand new windows 11 Home PC? You can’t use it without a Microsoft account unless you know a crafty workaround. Nuts!
I'll pay you $100 per year for using your car. And I'll drive it for Uber and make a lot of money on it. Incase there is a repair, the cost is on you. Is that a fair deal?
It is. The EU is now going after Microsoft for buying shares of a French AI company. The EU wants the French AI company to be an EU company.
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The real question no-one asks is where does that 2 billion go to when there's a fine? Who's pockets and bonuses? because I know the ordinary people who pay the subscriptions etc don't see any of it..
So it fines for iPhone and iPad but iPad is excluded from sideloading in iOS 17.4? It has no sense. They should also require sideloading and alternative AppStores on iPad.
I have mine set up without one, just a local account like previous Win versions
As long as Apple makes close to $100 billion in revenue from Europe each year, the EU is going to have to fine them a whole lot more than $2 billion to get Apple to leave the market
Why is that the real question?
This is an anti-competition ruling, not an anti-consumer one.
Well, not really. It's more urban legend than reality. I mean yes, they pay marginally more. But it's still nearly zero and their payment amount trend goes down.
Check the following video which describes it pretty nicely. Definitely not worth supporting Apple Music just because of your argument.
11:35 timestamp
This is good to see and hopefully more to come for Apple from the US as well. Apple needs to stop leeching illegally from companies.
There's the small issue of the $250m that Spotify paid for the absolute garbage that is Joe Rogan's podcast.
They sure do, my friend:
"Fines imposed on undertakings found in breach of EU antitrust rules are paid into the general EU budget. This money is not earmarked for particular expenses, but Member States' contributions to the EU budget for the following year are reduced accordingly. The fines therefore help to finance the EU and reduce the burden for taxpayers."
