• nixcamic@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    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.

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      11 months ago

      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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          11 months ago

          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.