no, they want the ability to:
- Inform the user that it’s cheaper to do it on their website
- Use their own payment method
- Offer apples IAP service with 15-30% fee
- Compete on equal and fair terms and not subsidize Apple Music.
And they are paying 99$ developer fee for publishing accessibility to the AppStore
Nope, it’s more the point of that the AppStore isn’t unprofitable if they can do that.
And Spotify making more money is irrelevant if Apple is
margin squeezing their competitors, Spotify isn’t the only one.
Well apple haven’t been consistent, they are taking 15-30% for some transactions and 0% for other transactions on arbitrary reasons that isn’t related in the cost of the service they provide known as
Price discrimination applying dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties, thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage.
And the inability to communicate with the user for better deals with
Anti-steering practices is anticompetitive for preventing consumers from accessing information or choices that would allow them to benefit from lower prices or better quality services.
The laws have always been there