"Listening to music is one of [the phone's] core purposes... if we don't have Spotify working properly across Play services and core services, people will not buy Android phones"
"Spotify initially supported Epic in its fight against Google and Apple. But in 2022, the company started using a Google program called User Choice Billing that let Android apps use their own payment systems in exchange for giving a reduced cut to Google. The special deal revealed in court showed that Google was willing to carve out even more exceptions for popular apps like Spotify"
"Google has had some pretty big business secrets spilled in the last few days. Last week, an economics professor testifying on behalf of the company in a separate antitrust trial that has since wrapped up, that Google pays Apple 36 percent of all ad revenue it generates through Apple's Safari browser."
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