Google during a testimony in the Epic vs Google trial said that a deal with Spotify allows the audio company to completely bypass Play Store fees.
  • nixcamic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    251·
    1 年前

    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.

    • ricecake@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      61·
      1 年前

      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.

        • ricecake@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          1 年前

          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.