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Re:Apple Music on Android requires its own payment details t... by jaimehrubiks on Thursday June 18, 2020 @01:30PM (#23565413)
But it says "on other music players". It doesn't really specify, but I would say that "Spotify" is the music player, and you still need to use it whether it is on the browser or other platform, but it is still "the same music player". I guess that the second case is more related to buying digital content, say an image, music, video, where you get the actual right to use that image, music, video on any platform. But I could be wrong.

In any case, as other users mentioned, if Apple music really lets ANY developer create an application that may reproduce the purchased content, then it may look fine.

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Re:Apple Music on Android requires its own payment details t... by beckler on Thursday June 18, 2020 @01:50PM (#23565641)
I will say it does seem a bit ambiguous, but I believe their intention is similar with how they view physical products.

I believe their intention is that once you download an asset (e.g. song/video/movie), it's a tangible, portable copy that's yours to do freely as you will regardless of device.

You wouldn't be able to play music downloaded via Apple Music directly on just any generic music player (like a car stereo or a CD player) due to DRM and other various restrictions, so I don't believe that this would be exempt from that condition.

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Re:Apple Music on Android requires its own payment details t... by chongli on Thursday June 18, 2020 @02:11PM (#23565862)
I take "on other music players" to mean other devices. If you have an Apple Music account, you can listen to the music on your MacBook, your iPhone, your iPad, and apparently also your Android phone. All of these devices are functioning as music players when you're playing the music you pay for on Apple Music.

The same goes for Netflix. Google does not try to take a cut of Netflix revenue even though you can only watch Netflix shows and movies through the Netflix first party application. You can, however, watch Netflix on many different devices.

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