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The issue as I understand it is that Apple uses its dominance in hardware to direct users to its own music streaming service at the expense of a competing service. Your analogy does not fit.



They have a pretty competitive pricing range too. The combined TV, music, and a bit of encrypted disk space is fairly priced. I used to pay for Spotify separately, but when they raised prices a couple of times in a row. It made more sense to just get Apple TV and music for a decent price as I already was using the 50 GB iCloud package because google likely data mines Google Docs/drive. So don't assume everyone is just getting it because it's “there”.


The issue is Apple's using its dominance in one ___domain to restrict competitors in another ___domain, not whether they offer a better deal. In fact, one would expect that they can offer the best deal around.




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