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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."
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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
How did apple monopolize podcasts? They are just audio served by RSS.
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