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		DominikR on July 4, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple Fires Back at Spotify for Asking for 'Prefer... What we are doing is all digital. You buy credits on a website which you can use to call someone on a landline/mobile phone number. Our only infrastructure are VoIP servers. The infrastructure is not different than Spotify's. It's all just servers.

zepto on July 4, 2016 [–]

Well that's clearly not correct.

The service you provide to the customer is use of your VoIP infrastructure. That's what they pay for.

In the case of Spotify, the service is not access to infrastructure. It is access to digital goods in the form of licensed music files.

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