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Oct 2021
33m 52s

Apple Saved Music. Why Not TV?

Vulture
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Back in the early 2000s, file sharing services like Napster devastated the music industry. Steve Jobs threw it a lifeline with the iTunes Store, offering people an easy way to download songs legally. That saved the music industry and made Apple a dominant player in the music biz...for a time. Twenty years later, the television industry is going through a sim ... Show More
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