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What are you referring to by "Spotify situation"? I'm out of the loop. Could it be the data breaches mentioned here?

https://threatpost.com/spotify-changes-passwords-data-breach...

Spotify complained that apples uses its market power as the app-gatekeeper to promote its own services over Spotify's. Afaik, Spotify needs to pay that 30% royalty fee to apple whenever someone signs up to Spotify via the app-store, whereas apple obviously does not have pay itself that fee for its music streaming service. This is the complaint: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_...

Spotify has illustrated that they have no qualms themselves in abusing their market power to subvert the fairness/freeness of markets - they're currently pouring massive amounts of resources into an attempt to force themselves into the role of podcasting-gatekeeper. Hope that the EU looks into their own actions as well.

The "Spotify situation" is an ongoing argument between Spotify & Apple.

Spotify's side: https://www.timetoplayfair.com/facts/ (this page is theirs)

Apple's side: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/03/addressing-spotifys-c...

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