[shuckles]

> And what do you think the reason for that is?

It doesn’t matter. I’m not the one whose arguments depend on Apple making money from Spotify.

> The device owner paid for their device and the OS.

I have to assume people writing on Hacker News are not so naive about software business models. The vast majority of software is not sold with a free license to developers to build anything they want packaged with the hardware sale.