The Commission may be worried about the company forcing competing music services out of the app. While the Android version has hooks for several services like Google Play, Spotify and Deezer, the iOS version is limited mostly to Apple Music, iTunes and Spotify -- and many songs may not link to the last of the three, based in Sweden.
Remind me not to found a company inside the EU. They make everything difficult. Shazam is a tiny, niche company and they are throwing around anti-competitiveness concerns?
Apple paid $400m. They aren't that tiny and niche.
if the EU spent more time scrutinising their budget they would find they have a hell of a lot more money then necessary to run their gov't and that many people are redundant and/or are paid way to much.
It isn't really, but does have a trading partnership.
My guess is that you'll find Spotify at the end of this particular paper chain.
Competition in markets is important.
The issue that's reportedly a concern is how Apple's control of the extensive data that comes along with Shazam, combined with what Apple is already collecting from Apple Music might affect smaller competitors.
Tell me what market Shazam is in. What that market is, Apple isn't currently in it. Ergo, how can Apple buying Shazam effect competition in that market?
1/2000th of the size of Apple.
Ok maybe the company isn't technically "tiny" but they are the epitome of niche.
I guess Brexit just can't come fast enough. Remind me, has Austria ever been known for popular or cutting-edge tech? Or anything else, for that matter, other than pastries, music, scenery, and never admitting its deeply Nazi past.... and present?
Lol , no one is stopping you from using AirPlay.
Turkey still denies the Armenian genocide.
And the Euro-bashing begins just like it does every time there's a story about the EU trying to limit monopolies and maintain competition. But it's normal when the only news sources you read are from the US. The US has been afraid of the EU for many years because it sees it as a threat, both ecomical and political. Wake up folks!
Austria - have you ever even been to Austria? Have you ever met anyone from there? It's a country where a lot is happening and you really should learn something about it before you revile it.
Turkey??? Yea, well, Japan has territorial disputes with S. Korea and Russia but I don't see how Turkey or Japan has anything to do with the subject of this article.
Another enlightening set of comments on AI.
...Austria… ...its deeply Nazi past.... and present?
An organization explicitly designed for the sole purpose of committing the crime against humanity of [content redacted for "political" reasons]–as admitted by its founders–is getting bashed? Gee. How about that.
The US has been afraid of the EU for many years because it sees it as a threat, both ecomical and political. Wake up folks!
Someone sure needs to wake up if they think the US is "threatened" by the organization its treasonous leadership purposely helped create.
The US helped create the EU? Possibly, but not likely. Yes, the US saved Europe from fascism, but that's as far as it goes. And that was a while ago. And even if the US did help create the EU way back when, does that mean that it's not threatened by it? No.
As for the US feeling 'threatened'. I'm not sure if that's the word but it surely could be. Not too long ago there were rumblings of world trading in crude oil moving to the euro. That simple move would have undermined the entire US economy. Definitely reason to be very concerned at the very least.
My guess is that most people who have actually lived in both places would choose the EU as place of permanent residence if they had the choice. That's my experience after having dealt with countless US citizens residing in the EU for work purposes over more than two decades.
Sometimes it's the little (big) things that count.
Protections, there are many. Food Safety and labelling is one. Competition is another. This move will scrutinise the deal to guarantee that it will not alter the playing field too much. Is that any different to what the US does?
On a broader scale belonging to the EU affords us power, influence and protection that we wouldn't enjoy otherwise. Even the latest polls now claim that British opinion has changed over Brexit. Not that there was overwhelming support for it in the first place.
The scrutiny of this deal would be less effective if every member state had to evaluate it individually.
You chose to quote Janusz Korwin-Mikke. Very unfortunate given his record and entirely unrepresentative of the realities of the EU.