Benjamin, you're 9 to 5 max, European correspondent.

What?

I wanted where you were going to that one.

Yeah.

So what is this story with the Spotify and the EU? Are they saying something is unfair now?

What's going on?

Well they've been saying it's unfair for a long time. In fact, I think it was in the middle of the

last year that Spotify had publicly complained that the

European Commission case was taken too long to resolve such that the damage was already done so even if they are

found positively for Spotify and negative for Apple at which point it's way too late because it's

taken them five years to come to a decision.

So even Spotify is getting fed up with how long, you know, how many people's feet are dragging

on this, because this started way back in like 2019 you

know at mid-2019 when they first launched that Time to Play Fair.com website and

they were complaining that you know the app the Apple music was unfairly favored on the iPhone for various factors.

Obviously the App Store is a big one because third party streaming services have to pay commission in a purchase commission.

Those apps cannot tell people about other places to buy

a subscription outside, i.e. through the website. Spotify has tried multiple times to get something

like that in where they just let you log into your

account directly or click to sign it through the web and every single time it gets rejected they

make a pay us think about it most recently we had it with audio books if you remember that story

wasn't too long ago and yeah yeah but they filed so they filed formal

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