Steve Troughton-SmithJul 18, 2024

This is like a bully sitting on your chest controlling your arms going ‘don't punch your face!’. You preinstall Apple Music on a billion+ devices, undercut your competitors on a subsidized price they can never match, boost yourself with illegal anticompetitive features and entitlements and systemwide ad spots, regularly stall them from submitting updates, and then complain they don't innovate enough??

I'm seriously about ready for this company to burn to the ground
https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/112807798133371559

9to5Mac (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Apple Music VP claims Spotify has ‘stopped innovating,’ touts Beats Pill redesign in new interview https://9to5mac.com/2024/07/18/apple-music-vp-claims-spotify-has-stopped-innovating-touts-beats-pill-redesign-in-new-interview/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Mastodon
Show threadAlex

@stroughtonsmith Kind of confused by this take because Spotify is still much more popular, despite the higher price and despite not being pre-installed. They’re winning on product for many folks. As for Apple, if you create and maintain the entire platform it’s perfectly reasonable that you get to pre-install your own apps. The EU’s awful choice screens for the browser are downright user hostile.

All this said, I do agree that Apple has gone too far, especially with the Settings ads

Jul 18, 2024 at 10:09pmMastodon for iOS