It is also a bit of a problem for Apple that what they are being accused of is a legit accusation.
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Apple Challenges $2 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Over Spotify Complaint
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You should know there are ways around those. But okay: https://www.politico.eu/article/european-commission-microsoft-teams-antitrust-probe-video-call/
I tend to think so as well. Spotify is European and big, bad Apple (despite its tremendous EU footprint) is not.
Apple can challenge all they want, yet if we look at the way they implemented the DMA changes, this is nothing but a farce.
Not really. The EU will eventually be the undoing of the EU. They despise American tech companies but had zero complaints about the behaviors of Nokia and Ericsson, nor others like Nestle and Phillips.
Apple is such a child. Apple should just build their own decent music app. Oh wait,..nope nothing to see.
Apple is back to thinking it's IBM in 1984. How many lawsuits in the past 10 years under Cook? This, the same company that promotes itself as an environmental warrior on one hand, whilst burying Millions of it's plastic technojunk airpods that can't even have their batterys replaced. Boo hoo Apple.
No we just think (and rightfully so) that Spotify (and also Epic) are in the wrong.
This is what any sensible person with a smartphone would do. You see an item you like in your supermarket A, take your phone out and see if you can find a better deal online or in another supermarket. Or am I missing something?
PS And I pay for Apple Music Family plan.
don't have to imagine. microsoft is literally doing it with the xbox console. lol has your head, as you say, exploded yet?
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Apple has been hit with antitrust accusations in the USA also. Maybe it is because Apple is doing things they shouldn't, and not due to "hate"
Are saying the when you pick up your phone or open an app is akin to entering a supermarket? Such false analogy would not play in a reasonable court. An iPhone or iPad is not even close to a supermarket, everyone knows that.
More accurately Steve Jobs would probably say: "They are bicycles for the mind".
Cheers.
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Apple is in a position where only apple can undo apple.
Weren't they found guilty of this exact same thing in the US too?
And then they flipped off the judge basically by trying to be cute and get around her ruling. She is not happy about it.
Sorry, no mention in that article about Microsoft being fined over 570 million Euro's, only they may be investigated.
So far you've failed to backup your claim, and no I shouldn't be expected to know how to get round paywalls on websites to illegally read their content...
Only cause they are going after the infallible Apple.
Also since you said we as if you all would have one singular thought, thinking as a group is weird, some would even say (rightfully so) cultish.
FYI: Spotify was an early adopter of the App Store (launched their app on iOS in 2008) and their chosen method for attracting customers was to have them sign up for the free ad supported version in the app and go onto the internet to sign up for a paid subscription. So there was no "cheaper" version of Spotify available to consumers online originally. And Spotify wasn't providing consumers with a choice for how to pay. They had to go online to pay. And anyone who signed up for the free version was providing Spotify with contact information that could be used to communicate about the paid subscription on their web site.
See how that doesn't really line up with what the EU is claiming?
Spotify being based in Sweden is an EU favorite son, Apple is that evil yankee upstart. Last time I looked Spotify had a much larger subscriber base than Apple Music.
Nah. Apple will just eventually grow a pair and tell them to eat dirt and leave.
How many years have you guys been saying this? When is it actually going to happen? 2025? 2030? 2050? Have at least some specifics.