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Google admits Spotify pays no Play Store fees because of a secret deal (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] Fiivemacs -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And users should care because....

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because that means some developers are being arbitrarily charged at 30% fee basically. In Google has iterated over and over again that they don't really want to negotiate it yet. For some reason they were willing to make a secret deal with Spotify?

[–] Fiivemacs -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And?

I don't understand this fascination with people and then wanting to know legal business dealings. If it's illegal, have them put into the court system. But even then, it has nothing to do with users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hackernews isn’t really catering to average end users.

[–] Fiivemacs -1 points 1 year ago

It's your average users who seem to love being fed weird business news and celebrity gossip junk though..

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This isn’t hn though, is it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is indeed a hacker news mirror on lemmy afaik. And that being said lemmy isn’t really an average user crowd either.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The most likely thing Spotify has offered in return is user data imo.