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Google admits Spotify pays no Play Store fees because of a secret deal | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 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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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 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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