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Re:Apple Music on Android requires its own payment details t... by mortenjorck on Thursday June 18, 2020 @01:36PM (#23565474)
> plenty of options

There are two options, and one of them is provided free of charge by the world's largest advertising company.

The state of the smartphone OS market is so wildly different from the general-merchandise retail market as to render any comparisons meaningless.

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Re:Apple Music on Android requires its own payment details t... by szhu on Thursday June 18, 2020 @01:42PM (#23565548)
Not only are there only two options, there is a high entry fee to each option, and you can only choose one at a time even if you wanted to pay this entry fee twice. What percent of consumers are willing to carry two phones in their pockets?

So you can compare this to if you could only buy things at two different stores, each store has a hefty membership fee, and you were effectively locked into your decision for at least a year at a time.

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