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Apple to Be Fined Over $500 Million in EU Music Streaming Probe
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It’s time to get out of Europe. That vampire is thirsty.
You can’t even upgrade to Spotify Premium in Australia through the app. So you are forced to go elsewhere. I can’t see what the anti competitive nature is. You can download Spotify for free. Why should Apple be forced to do anything else. The Eu are a bunch of self righteous scabs.
I can't imagine doing business in China being any easier, yet business is business. Not going to happen.
The true vampires are big multinational tech companies sucking all our data up, often without our knowledge to sell on so that we can be convinced to spend more money with them or another giant tech company, coupled with unfettered control of everything so they get the best and everyone/thing else suffers.
So, not Apple then. Someone more like Spotify?
Imagine Spotify trying to take the moral high-ground. LOL
All of them. Apple uses our data in a different way, but dont be fooled that they dont take it, and it’s not making them oodles of money one way or the other
If the EU are going to be all high and mighty, and ‘we love consumers', then they should be the same for artists and force Spotify to pay a larger amount, or at least the same as Apple back to the artists.
The EU are self righteous hypocrites.
The EU are self righteous hypocrites.
The post was about selling the data on. Are you suggesting Apple do? Because that was what I was talking about.
Apples policies are not good for competition.
Competition is good for consumers.
Thank you, EU.
Competition is good for consumers.
Thank you, EU.
So how do EU consumers benefit from those $500 million? Except for increased ”taxing” & pricing?
Have Apple stopped people from signing up with Spotify? How have they reduced competition?
The EU have just made it more expensive for Apple to be in the EU, which being a business, Apple will have to recoup that money from consumers.
The EU have just fined consumers.
My post was about data sucking and control, actually. Both of which Apple do in spades. I mentioned selling it on because thats also prevalent with big tech. In my second post i clarified what Apple do with our data, and whilst I’m sure they dont sell it, to suggest they dont use it to make money in other ways is naive.
No. Please dont make sense on a mac forum…
Spotify has several options to advertise its products and services, such as through podcasts, TV, terrestrial radio, newspapers, and more. Apple has prohibited Spotify from advertising other pricing and payment methods from within the app.
If an iPhone user downloads the Spotify app from the App Store without prior knowledge of the service, is it reasonable for Apple to charge a fee for customer acquisition?
If an iPhone user downloads the Spotify app from the App Store without prior knowledge of the service, is it reasonable for Apple to charge a fee for customer acquisition?
Once again the EU is taking the lead and showing the world how it's done.
Yes.
"Under a settlement, Volkswagen will pay a fine of 502 million euros and BMW 373 million euros."
A few sources:
Reuters and NYT
The EU is taking GDPR very seriously as well:
20 biggest GDPR fines so far (2023)
Better? No. Spotify may the more subscribers but it’s because they don’t pay the artists they’re ripping off. At least Apple steps up.
Poor EU citizens. Unable to navigate the digital world by doing something as simple as opening the web browser on the iPhone and typing in spotify.com. It must be hard when that action that takes less than 5 seconds is such a burden. However do you survive?
To that end, I'm glad you have the EU to save you from this debilitating weakness.
To that end, I'm glad you have the EU to save you from this debilitating weakness.
In this case it’s technically a rumor, an official announcement has not been made.
Sorry. I wrote my initial reply on a typewriter, but it didn’t send. Macrumors do the same thing. Every website does it. The EU forcing tech companies to ‘switch off’ will never happen, and now they are just cherry picking companies that can pay up.
This does nothing for the consumer.
The EU don’t honestly care about consumers. Or artists. They are a business getting kickbacks like all the rest.