Why not include all the dollars required to get a working phone platform to billions of people on the planet?
Ask Jeff Bezos or Microsoft how easy that is.
Spotify wants to have all the positive aspects of the global Apple ecosystem but is not willing to pay a price for it.
They're not being fined for the percentage they take are they? Rather it seems they are being fined for banning app makers from letting users buy subscriptions outside the app store.
Arguably Apple could still create licensing terms that take a percentage of revenue that happens outside the app store. The only odd bit about Apple is they're structured it around a transaction fee on the App Store rather than royalties for IP, which is more traditional. If they asked for royalties for the use of Apple SDKs, Apple branding, etc. instead, then it looks just like just another commercial vendor.
Apple is not entitled to a cut of every transaction that happens on my device, despite however much their claim otherwise.
If they want to release free updates (which I own a copy of) that's fine. If they make me pay for updates (which I will also then own a copy of) that's also fine. If they want to make me sign a Eula to get updates from them, fine I won't sign it but you better have not locked me out of my own device by preventing me from installing other operating systems.
yea they do it not as a public service but to make their own platform more attractive with apps to ppl who buy iphones.
This is not a service like aws purely benefit of app creators like spotify. Apple does it for their own benefit.
But this assumes that by creating something Apple has right to all the profits from it. For consumers, it's likely better if they didn't. And consumers are voters while corporations aren't.