Warren had different beefs with Google, Apple and Amazon, but the common thread was that she accused each one of using its powerful platforms to “lock out smaller guys and newer guys,” including some that compete with Google, Apple and Amazon.
And a comment from Spotify’s Jonathan Prince:
“Apple has long used its control of iOS to squash competition in music, driving up the prices of its competitors, inappropriately forbidding us from telling our customers about lower prices, and giving itself unfair advantages across its platform through everything from the lock screen to Siri. You know there’s something wrong when Apple makes more off a Spotify subscription than it does off an Apple Music subscription and doesn’t share any of that with the music industry. They want to have their cake and eat everyone else’s too.”
She’s one of the dumbest people in the Senate, and that’s saying something when the Senate has morons like John McCain, Orrin Hatch, Harry Reid, and Diane Feinstein in it. Fauxcahontus needs to shut up and go back to teaching.
“You know there’s something wrong when Apple makes more off a Spotify
subscription than it does off an Apple Music subscription and doesn’t
share any of that with the music industry“
“And the thing that’s wrong is that Spotify isn’t getting that money!”
Spotify wants Warren to help keep its competition down; classic rent-seeking.
She is actually a very thoughtful person, and one of the few politicians willing to address the widening gap between rich and poor, powerful and powerless, without resorting to xenophobia and ultra-nationalism. That you do not like Senator Warren does not make her stupid.
That said, Apple does not exist to make companies Spotify successful nor should it be required to do so. That they own one of the major delivery platforms might suck for Spotify, but as one of the original players in digital music, Apple has every right to be in streaming music as well.
That’s just a bit reactionary and incredibly tone deaf to the idea of discourse. Senator Warren is a very thoughtful person who has a keen sense of analytics and a firm understanding of technology.
if you disagree with her, fine. But to denigrate someone with a cheap shot highlights what’s wrong with the Internet.
No wonder we have a country that’s bitterly divided.
As a lifelong card carrying Apple person I always thought that they would be capitalists with a heart. Turns out, they’re not.
Tim Cook raises funds for shills like Paul Ryan, a person who is against everything Apple has publicly stated their support for; women’s rights LGBT rights, equality and social justice. I guess that just means while you’re using their products.
Google knows more about you than you do and monetizes that information everyday while bribing you with shiny baking.
Amazon has insidiously become the Walmart killer, using Walmart’s own tactics of cutthroat undercutting, low wages and conditions for its warehouse “fulfillment specialists” and worker bees.
Ultimately, these are publicly held multinational corporations whose objective is profit at the expense of all else.
The shills won.
Are they, Spotify but also other content delivery providers, required to sell via the App Store and thus give Apple a cut? No.
Netflix, Hulu, Audible, HBO (Go) for example, are all able to handle content subscription servicing on their own without Apple taking a cut.
She’s not thoughtful, she’s a certified liar.
Apple tried to get licensing for music at $5 for everyone. They managed to get students the discount. I don’t think they’ve been predatory at all. The only issue i’ve had is “exclusives” but Apple is hardly the first to negotiate album exclusives.
But but but then we have to WORK to get customers to trust us with their payment information! Do you really think that’s fair? /s
according to my understanding, iOS never had a monopoly on anything for Apple to abuse. You can get the DoJ working day and night, trying to look for Apple’s abuse of their monopoly power, or you could mind your own business.
Where do I get this certification. It could come in useful. Is there a piece of paper I can hang on the wall of my office?
I have to admit the Paul Ryan thing is a head scratcher. I haven’t seen a good explanation for it anywhere. I’m willing to listen to reasoned ideas on why they’d support him. Even moneyed self-interest on Apple’s part doesn’t make much sense because they’ve gone out of their way before to oppose/support things that could very well lose them customers or favor. Maybe (and that’s a big MAYBE) they think they can engage and change his mind? I don’t think that is possible without some incredible life altering event for Ryan.
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Oh dude, you’re off your meds. Please give me some citation.
At $5, who do yu think is making any money? Steaming services only enrich record companies. Artists get less than the shitty deals they had for every other mechanical.
yes, please do share her certified lying credentials, oh non-divisive one….
well said, on all accounts.
Just keeping the legislative wheels greased on all fronts, seems to me. Maybe as a conduit for addressing issues, too.
While I disagree that Paul Ryan is less extreme simply because he doesn’t act out in a crazy manner (he has thrown his support to Trump also), the rest of your analyses seems sound. Like Mo says below: keeping the legislative wheels greased. It is the price of doing business to have to work with everyone — and considering a lot in Congress have forgotten what compromise really means (it doesn’t mean “losing”) — I suppose we should see this as a positive thing.