Apple faces fines, Jeff Blue whips, goodbye to spirit.

Motley Full Money. I'm Deidra Wooler here with Motley Full and

Lens Jason Moi. Welcome to Motley Fool Money. I'm Deidra Wooler here with Motley Fool and Les

Jason Moser. Jason how's your Monday going so far? Hey so far so good

Deidre it's beautiful weather here in Northern Virginia and just another good reminder that spring is right around the

corner. It is indeed. If it's not maybe the best Monday in the world for Apple

one of the most interesting stories out today is about this 1.8 billion

dollar euro fine from the European Commission. It's leveled at Apple. And what's

happening here is the European Commission says Apple really sort of gate kept and kept users from learning about other music apps which led to consumers paying higher prices.

Not the first time we've heard this about the App Store is it?

No, it's not.

And we'll get to the gate kept part of the story here momentarily, I'm sure, but I mean, you're right.

This is something that as Apple gets bigger the drumbeat for this only grows louder and

I think you know many will call this the fight for a more open internet for consumers, I think most of us are kind of on board with that.

So I think the big picture that's probably the right side on which to be, and Apple kind of seems

to be pushing against that narrative a little bit so it doesn't really look good

the optics don't really look that great for them in that regard to me one of the things that

really stood out to me the response to the fine apple said Spotify stands to gain the most from this

EU pronouncement and I don't know to me like I feel like the longer term

implications of something like this consumers by by far and away have more to potentially

gain from something like this.

So I mean, I understand Apple needs to defend itself, and they will at virtually any cost have

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