Meme: Amphibian creature labelled “Spotify” emerging from a body of water, but being pushed back. Captions read: “Stop them! Don’t let a single company rule them all. If you see a Horrid Beast monopolizing, push it back in.”

  • @dunidaneEnglish
    10•2 months ago

    How did apple monopolize podcasts? They are just audio served by RSS.

    • @yeather@lemmy.caEnglish
      14•2 months ago

      They are using monopoly loosely. To run a podcast through Apple was easy and you could run it on many platforms. On Spotify you are locked into using their services. Just because Apple had the vast majority of podcasts at the beginning did not make them a monopoly, Spotify forcing podcasts to either be on their large platform or not be makes them a monopoly.

    • HannesEnglish
      5•2 months ago

      I’m not a native speaker - I just wanted to say that for a very long time, most podcasts where hosted on iTunes and that was (and kind of still is) the go-to place for podcast-reviews/ratings

      And as I said: they kept the system open despite their market position