A group that represents audio streaming firms including Spotify and France’s Deezer in Europe has urged the European Commission to reject Apple’s tab proposal in a music streaming case.
Digital Music Europe expressed concern in a letter submitted to the European Commission on Tuesday that Apple’s proposal to comply with the regulator’s March order, in which the iPhone-maker was fined 1.84 billion euros ($1.98 billion), does not provide concrete and effective remedies.
Apple was fined by the EU in March for thwarting competition from music streaming rivals via restrictions on its App Store.
Subsequently, the iPhone-maker announced measures to make it easier for music streaming apps on its App Store in the European Economic Area to inform users of other ways to purchase digital services, as it looks to comply with a European Union mandate.
Under Apple’s proposal, streaming services can include links to their websites to inform users of payment options outside its App Store and the company would charge a 27% commission on transactions made through a link.
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MacDailyNews Take: The “Digital Music Europe” group of whiners want to use Apple’s App Store to advertise lower prices else where for free. This makes zero sense. Does some quasi-governmental confederation force Target to allow Walmart to advertise lower prices inside Target stores for free? Of course, not.
“This boils down to the fact that Spotify wants to use the platform that Apple built and maintains at great expense for free.” – MacDailyNews, March 13, 2019
The European Union arose because the Europeans couldn’t compete on their own with the rest of the world, so they each lined up to surrender their national sovereignty, unique cultures, and dignity for an undemocratic, opaque, wasteful, bloated, bureaucratic quasi-governmental blob – and, even with the EU’s thumbs all over the scale, they still can’t compete. – MacDailyNews, March 4, 2024
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