nixcamic comments on Google admits Spotify pays no Play Store fees because of a secret deal

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[–] nixcamic@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

If you want to start a competitor to Spotify or Google music, you will have to pay those fees making it almost impossible for you to compete.

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[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

A company giving special access to it's competition on a platform they control is usually used as an indicator of not being anticompetitive.

I hadn't considered it from a "collusion" angle.

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[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

it would be different if it was for all it's competition.

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[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Eh, when Microsoft was required to ask you which browser you wanted, they didn't need to offer every browser, just theirs, firefox and Chrome.

This could definitely be collusion, but I don't think that not extending it to all competitiors is what makes it that.

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[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago

Microsoft didn't make the other browsers pay for the privilege of being a browser though.

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