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The fundamental problem is that Apple cannot have it both ways; you cannot have both a marketplace where you tax merchants in and you compete against them at the same time. If you want a cut of Spotify's revenue because you are enabling a great platform for them, awesome, but you cannot have Apple Music at the same time. If you do, your management of Spotify/Tidal/whomever should be regulated: fees capped, rights restricted, etc.

Apple has tried to do this too many times (Apple Books anyone?) and only succeeded in a few places and they've usually leveraged their OS/market position to do that --see Apple Music vs Spotify. At the end of the day it's Apple's customers that get hurt (because we massively prefer Spotify over Music but are not getting a first-class experience). Same for Siri, or Mail (what a POS that is) or Notes (why can't we map the swipe-from-bottom right to a better note-taking app?).

I say all of this as an Apple fan and a customer. Cut it out, stop trying to be 90s Microsoft.