Yep.
> Spotify’s aim is to make more money off others’ work.
And Apple's aim is to make more money off that more money. It's such an obviously, laughably stupid argument they're doing there.
> Spotify’s aim is to make more money off others’ work.
And Apple's aim is to make more money off that more money. It's such an obviously, laughably stupid argument they're doing there.
Although growing on the pie seems a more apt metaphor. Defending 15% fees on second-year subscription is pretty difficult. There's no marketing, very little fraud risk. It's really rent-seeking behaviour – which of course is the commercial point of the walled garden approach.
This is Apple exploiting a very lucrative market position, one that they did invest quite a lot of money in – and took quite a gamble – to create.
What's wrong with that?
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/spotify-ap...
It looks like Google Play (Google Music?) still wins for compensating artists the most so it's nice to see my choice still holds up over time.
To save people the click:
* Google Play $0.0068 * iTunes $0.0060 * Spotify $0.0044