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Just because there is someone with more market share than you does not mean that your actions can't squeeze smaller players than you (or, more commonly for apple, squeeze players in adjacent markets. See: Spotify vs Apple Music).



True that. "See: Spotify vs Apple Music". Considering that Google has their own streaming services and takes same 30% cut, i truly wonder why Spotify didn't address their "anticompetitive practices".


Looks like Google has been offering concessions:

https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/spotify-google-billing...

And previously Spotify and Netflix had a loophole on the Play Store:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/28/google-to-enforce-30percent-...




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