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Spotify Says Apple One Bundle Will Cause 'Irreparable Harm to Developer Community'
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Who cares? Compete or die. You're just a company.
Maybe spotify should invent its own phone 
Spotify can cry as loud as they want. It's Apples platform. It's their ecosystem. They can do whatever the **** they want within the boundaries of their ecosystem.
Maybe just maybe it is because, Apple produces the Hardware, the OS and bundle their services, while Amazon does not.......just a little "maybe"
Amazon Prime’s Prime Music isn’t competitive with Spotify. It’s complete garbage in comparison.
The good thing is you can customize / upgrade the iCloud storage amount within the bundles.
Smart consumer here.........no they cannot, that's why there are antitrust regulations, and at the end it would just hurt the customer.
Guess we’ll just ignore the fact that nearly every carrier bundles your wireless plan with Spotify nowadays, therefore inflating their subscriber numbers
This is horrible news. I hate Apple One. I wanted a cheaper monthly charge for Apple Music... not more expensive with other apps I don’t want/need.
Guess Apple wants to lose my $10 a month. Back to iHeartRadio I go.... 😕
Guess Apple wants to lose my $10 a month. Back to iHeartRadio I go.... 😕
I for one won't be satisfied until Apple and friends decide to offer up every avenue of consumer interest in a convenient little digital bento box. I long to have everything I consume curated for me from the root by a monolith that knows me better than I know myself and loves me so so much.
Amazon makes hardware, and are far stricter gatekeepers than Apple is.
Just ask HBO Max and Peacock.
Screw Spotify. I was recently forced to switch from Spotify to Apple Music because of how many issues I've had playing Spotify on my Amazon Echos over the past few months. Spotify support wouldn't give me any discounts for degraded service, couldn't help me resolve it, and refused to escalate my issues or send reports to their engineering team. I've seen a ton of other complaint threads for the same issues in their community forums lately, so it's not just me. Maybe Spotify should focus on fixing issues and satisfying their current customers instead of focusing on what another company is doing and ignoring their users. Apple Music has been great by the way... not a single issue playing music from my Echos, and in fact, Apple Music lets me play different music on different Echos at the same time, which wasn't possible with Spotify.
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so because they are a good music service they shouldn't be allowed to bundle? I agree their bundle will kill off a lot of services, specifically the zillion fitness subscription services in the $5-$15/month range.
Is Disney anti-competitive because they bundle Hulu and ESPN+? Should Netflix sue them?
Those are deals between different companies.....Do people really not see a difference?
It's not. And it's no different from Comcast bundling TV + Internet + Peacock + other stuff. ALL bundling by ALL utilities is anti-competitive.
So silly to compare this to Amazon or the bundles that Spotify offers. It gives a clear competitive advantage to Apple on Apple devices, whereas competitors still have to cough up extra percentage. These comments are just pandering to Apple.
I don’t see the point here. Disney and Amazon have bundles too. What’s preventing Spotify from offering one?
AKA: Apple has a better market position and business model than we do, and we don't like it, so we are going to "call the cops".
That's sort of the problem with anti-competitive behavior. Someone else asked how is this different from Amazon Prime--it's a little different, but that's a fair question, too. We're talking about companies that are valued at over $2,000,000,000,000 (that's trillion) dominating markets. Microsoft was once sued (and lost when it was only a software company--though a very dominant one) for bundling Internet Explorer on Windows. So, I get that a lot of people on here are calling out whiners and complainers, but this behavior is pretty monopolistic.
Apple doesn’t get a dime of my Disney bundle or Amazon subscription.
I can’t think of any. In fact, the one carrier I can think of that does that, is Verizon, but with Apple Music for 6 months, so...
Can you please tell me?
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Do you mean like the Spotify, Hulu ad, Showtime bundle that is $5 a month?
Or the Hulu ad Black Friday promo of $0.99 a month?
Or the NYTimes All Access + Spotify Premium?
Those can't be done.
I wish the 3 bundled items were user selectable. I would swap News+ for Arcade since I read news instead of play video games.