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    10 months ago

    iPhones are a closed platform.

    Not like consoles, they are not. Anyone can develop for them, the only barrier is a license fee and a Mac.

    They are essentially an app console. They have never been sold to consumers or presented to developers as anything else.

    They have been sold as general purpose devices that, like I said, anyone can develop for. Again, they are nothing like consoles.

    For what it’s worth, almost all of the in-app revenue at the center of this discussion is gaming revenue. Everything else is a rounding error.

    Spotify would disagree.