Apple was ordered by EU antitrust regulators today to open up its closed ecosystem to rivals, with the latter spelling out details on how to go about it in line with the bloc’s landmark rules and where non-compliance could lead to an investigation and fines.

      • @vermaterc@lemmy.ml
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        84 months ago

        If it wasn’t for Spotify, I wouldn’t know most of the artists I listen to now. They might receive little money from me listening to them, but it’s still more than they would receive if I didn’t knew about their existence.

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        14 months ago

        I don’t entirely buy this argument.

        In my experience, Spotify has made music accessible enough that I listen to thousands of hours per year, far more than anyone else I know. Vs before Spotify I couldn’t be bothered. Even assuming Spotify pays artists less than other mediums, there’s a point where the much higher listening rate is the better choice.

        I’m not especially hard core of a music listener so my attempts at other services were disappointing enough that I probably wouldn’t bother.

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            14 months ago

            Certainly the fake artists and ai crap bothers me, but I haven’t yet been knowingly affected by that. Most pop music sounds generated by ai anyway so what’s a few more.

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      14 months ago

      Poorly written article but it does end with a correction that “Spotify has not opted in to using the required APIs”.

      While I have no way of knowing who to blame here, I see Spotify trying to blame Apple rather than talk about the api claim. If they have an objection to that api, let’s meet there, a little closer to reality

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          4 months ago

          Yeah but that still makes no sense.

          I have Spotify and lost that easy volume control capability when this issue first surfaced. However I have never used a HomePod. Whatever changed has nothing to do with my non-existent HomePod

          Maybe this is unrelated but there was also a change to HomeKit where we had to accept some sort of architectural update having to do with my non-existent HomePod. I can easily believe a common ground of API changes and that Spotify didn’t want to update

          • @Eideen@lemmy.world
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            34 months ago

            Am only replying to you talking about some unrelated to the issue at hand. That is what they trying to say. Apple removes a feature that we all used, and only mad it only available for apple products.