Meme: Amphibian creature labelled “Spotify” emerging from a body of water, but being pushed back. Captions read: “Stop them! Don’t let a single company rule them all. If you see a Horrid Beast monopolizing, push it back in.”

  • Hannes@feddit.orgEnglish
    222·
    2 months ago

    It’s one thing to rule them all and a whole other to lock users into your platform

    Apple monopolized the podcast market for a decade but never stopped people from using the podcasts there with whatever client people wanted to use it with

    Spotify is just going the shitty route and forcing people to use their client and not just their servers

      • yeather@lemmy.caEnglish
        12·
        2 months ago

        They are using monopoly loosely. To run a podcast through Apple was easy and you could run it on many platforms. On Spotify you are locked into using their services. Just because Apple had the vast majority of podcasts at the beginning did not make them a monopoly, Spotify forcing podcasts to either be on their large platform or not be makes them a monopoly.

      • Hannes@feddit.orgEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        I’m not a native speaker - I just wanted to say that for a very long time, most podcasts where hosted on iTunes and that was (and kind of still is) the go-to place for podcast-reviews/ratings

        And as I said: they kept the system open despite their market position