How come Amazon doesn't have to pay a 30% cut for every sale through their app?
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Apple Rejected Spotify's App Update Adding Audiobook Support
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They are too big to bully, so Apple cut them a sweetheart deal.
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I'm pretty sure it's much less complex than that: they're ignoring it because it doesn't apply to Spotify in particular.
Yet.
OMG...I miss those days. Even bought a SteelSeries controller to play Game Boy games on my iPhone 6.
Apple will full crash against the wall soon, i will LMAO once Tim Cooks surprised and distorted facial expression shows up in the news.
Just ask how much:
I wish Apple would instead place its focus on improving the UIs, catalogues, suggestion algorithms, etc., for apps like Books and Music.
Make Books and Music better or at the very least on par with rivals like Audible, Spotify, etc., and then offer them in a bundle that beats the competition on price.
You’re not going to kill off Spotify as long as it’s the first choice of the mainstream music listener.
This will just underline the somewhat faulty point Epic was trying to make.
Make Books and Music better or at the very least on par with rivals like Audible, Spotify, etc., and then offer them in a bundle that beats the competition on price.
You’re not going to kill off Spotify as long as it’s the first choice of the mainstream music listener.
This will just underline the somewhat faulty point Epic was trying to make.
This is not an excuse for Apple's disgusting practices.
By the same token of Apple playing hardball here. Spotify is refusing to sell the audio book to customers making a worse experience because they don’t want to miss out on the 30% cut.
Simple case, you are using an ecosystem build, managed, and created by Apple. But you don't want to pay the tax everyone pays, even we citizen in the USA pay taxes for infrastructure.
The same reason any other shopping app doesn’t have to pay 30% or any percentage.
If Apple spent as much time on the quality of their software as they do on making sure it’s difficult for people to make purchases that don’t give them 30%.
It’s a compromise -No other music streaming platform gets you the level of exposure Spotify can get you. The number of free and paid users and daily listens is unmatched by competitors.
This is also why Spotify doesn’t change its rates. It knows artists are sort of forced to stay or risk disappointing fans when they can’t find you on there.
Spotify is like the YouTube of music steaming in part because of the free tier. Except Spotify is even worse on rates for artists(content creators) than YouTube.
Think Apple is being evil? It's a company whose aim is to make as much money as possible. It ain't no charity and it has no legal or moral duty to make a competitor's life easier.
Best Buy wouldn't allow HP to advertise on its in-store display laptops that BB customers could buy them on Amazon.com either.
Best Buy wouldn't allow HP to advertise on its in-store display laptops that BB customers could buy them on Amazon.com either.
Amazon has a sweetheart deal on digital content
Why Amazon got out of the Apple App Store tax, and why other developers won’t
It’s leverage. The reason is leverage.
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Some of us may only be reading the headline - or the first paragraph or so.
But read this…
“Spotify designed a nine-step process for purchasing an audiobook, which involved a customer tapping on an audiobook and seeing a screen with a lock over the play button. Pressing on the play button provided customers with a page where they could request information on how to buy a book through an email, and the email offered up a link to purchase the book.”
If this is the case; isn’t this a basic breach of App Store Guidelines?!
So what the WSJ are reporting, if it’s to be true, it’s a non-starter. - What’s the issue? Denied.
But read this…
“Spotify designed a nine-step process for purchasing an audiobook, which involved a customer tapping on an audiobook and seeing a screen with a lock over the play button. Pressing on the play button provided customers with a page where they could request information on how to buy a book through an email, and the email offered up a link to purchase the book.”
If this is the case; isn’t this a basic breach of App Store Guidelines?!
So what the WSJ are reporting, if it’s to be true, it’s a non-starter. - What’s the issue? Denied.
You can’t buy anything in the Kindle app and in Amazon’s app you can’t purchase any digital items.
Sounds like they believed it complied (and was initially approved).
Apple is the company that does'nt want to see other companies flourish or do something better. Always insecure in some way.
Why not run emulation on steam deck instead? Genuine question, I've seen you mention emulation on several other threads, and I personally find steam deck to be wonderful.