Hacker News Reader

The irony is that Spotify is a partner in the app store fairness coalition (https://appfairness.org/).

I consider their developer platform[1] to be an app store of sorts, and they do not play fair when it comes to holding onto their market power in certain areas.

Anyone have a contact in the App Fairness Coalition to raise these points with?

[1] https://developer.spotify.com/community/showcase/

View on HN

Yeah, seriously. There isn’t some higher ideal — every company is in it for themselves and then works on justifying the policy that will further their interests through such coalitions.

No doubt that the same company that sends a cease and desist to a developer who provides an export feature would act the same way as Apple if they were in its shoes.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com