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Apple does not force Spotify to support its competition. Spotify does not offer any IAP so in fact it’s Apple that is giving away all its R&D into AVFoundation and various other cutting edge APIs for free to its competition. Apple does not make any money from Spotify.

It’s true when you become as successful as Apple, the rentiers will come knocking. That doesn’t make the rentiers’ case particularly strong or honorable.

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Apple doesn’t build the platform as a generous gift to developers on their platform. The build this stuff because they have to, otherwise iOS would be an awful platform for developers and by extension the users of Apples platform.

You are pretending you cannot build a foundational platform without double dipping, yet they do with macOS.

> otherwise iOS would be an awful platform for developers and by extension the users of Apples platform

This seems to imply that iOS is a a good platform for developers, and by extension, the users of Apple's platform.

The alternatives to "awful" include adjectives other than "good".

I think it was pretty clear what I mean. Good, great, slightly good, amazing. It’s the same thing.

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