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Google admits Spotify pays no Play Store fees because of a secret deal (techcrunch.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And users should care because....

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because that means some developers are being arbitrarily charged at 30% fee basically. In Google has iterated over and over again that they don't really want to negotiate it yet. For some reason they were willing to make a secret deal with Spotify?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And?

I don't understand this fascination with people and then wanting to know legal business dealings. If it's illegal, have them put into the court system. But even then, it has nothing to do with users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Hackernews isn’t really catering to average end users.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

It's your average users who seem to love being fed weird business news and celebrity gossip junk though..

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This isn’t hn though, is it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It is indeed a hacker news mirror on lemmy afaik. And that being said lemmy isn’t really an average user crowd either.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

The most likely thing Spotify has offered in return is user data imo.