[sebstefan]

"without Apple Spotify would be a dead product by now" is fiction as well

You can argue fiction against fiction by saying everyone on iOS would pay as happily on Android if there were no iOS

[techpression]

True without context, but not if you worked there at the time. It’s hard to describe just how much iOS did for Spotify at a crucial time of the company’s existence. But sure, we will never know for sure, but certain outcomes have far higher likelihoods than others.