> then it starts with "Imagine Apple decided Spotify was a big enough business threat that it had to take unfair measures to limit Spotify’s growth on the App Store."
> Um, okay - apple's store is not open, and spotify is not open source - so the article is over in it's first line..
Exactly. "Imagine that Apple wrote a GPL streaming music app, and Spotify was a redistributor of that app with almost no changes, but also used some of their own infrastructure to serve part of the backend of their fork. Now imagine that the reseller started doing nearly as much business as Apple with the app, but barely contributed any code. Apple asks Spotify to contribute more, Spotify replies 'lol.' Then, Apple tells Spotify that they can't call their fork 'Apple Music' anymore, and bans the Spotify fork from relying on Apple's infra for what Spotify doesn't find profitable to do."
> Um, okay - apple's store is not open, and spotify is not open source - so the article is over in it's first line..
Exactly. "Imagine that Apple wrote a GPL streaming music app, and Spotify was a redistributor of that app with almost no changes, but also used some of their own infrastructure to serve part of the backend of their fork. Now imagine that the reseller started doing nearly as much business as Apple with the app, but barely contributed any code. Apple asks Spotify to contribute more, Spotify replies 'lol.' Then, Apple tells Spotify that they can't call their fork 'Apple Music' anymore, and bans the Spotify fork from relying on Apple's infra for what Spotify doesn't find profitable to do."