Why can't Spotify compete with Apple? I don't understand why Spotify wants to match the price of Apple Music. Spotify already has more users and if the product is truly better than Apple Music, why can't it cost more? Instead of positioning themselves as the more premium product, they want to be cheaper.
"Apple's platform" or "your phone"? Why take a stand for a corporation? ANY corporation?
For whatever reason, for the most part, people on mobile only seem to use apps from the 2 major app stores. If your app gets pulled, your user base plummets.
But why should Spotify or any other company subsidize and support indie developers?
That is why, their product is inferior to Apple Music, at least on Apple devices. They also sign up exclusivities such as Tesla, etc, where it is still possible to use Apple Music, but just a poorer experience. Look at how to use Apple Music on a Tesla....you have to use Bluetooth, and there is no way to directly select a song on the large screen, instead, you have to use Hey Siri, or select the song on the phone...whereas Spotify gets their own button, and very nice UI....
Apple takes a 30% cut of Spotify's subscription fee for iOS users.
Except that's not how the real world works.
Are you sure you looked up the definition of monopoly? Do check again and let us know.
They made part of something. They relied on Apple to subsidize the missing pieces of their business model. Bringing the device, the OS, the development tools and the customers.
Hard to know if apple music has made any money, for all we know apple is using iPhone money to keep their services division going.
Full year profit? No.
Crack a history book... MS nearly got broken up and had federal regulators in house for years supervising some of their activities. Much like Apple today, Microsoft was trying to make it so only their approved software would work with Windows. They refused access to APIs and of course the whole IE farce that the EU had a field day with.
What Microsoft did was way worse. They were strong-arming their OEM vendors not to pre-install software or even offer other operating systems as options on their computers. If Dell or HP wanted to sell a box with RedHat they risked losing their license to sell Windows (or having to pay full retail price for it if they could get it.) It would be like Apple telling verizon if they sold iPhones they could not sell any other vendor's phone. Or if a developer wanted to have an app in the AppStore they could never make an Android version of the same app. Oh, and Apple would have to have 90-95% of the market while doing it.
Almost only counts in horseshoes and handgrenades. Plus, Microsoft had an actual monopoly - something north of 80% of the PC market.
It's funny...
In quarterly results articles... we hear "Android is dominating with 85% market share! Apple is doomed!!!"
But in Epic/Spotify articles... we hear "Apple is too big and powerful! They are a monopoly! They need to be broken up! We need government intervention!"
