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Why singleout apple, when our lives are surrounded by digital subscriptions from a lot of other companies too? Office, Netflix, Youtube Premium, Spotify, Blackb

• trasz 5y ago
  Because Apple has an ecosystem, whereas the others you mentioned live within someone else’s ecosystems.
• 908B64B197 5y ago
  Because the Minitel was completely vertivally integrated. The terminals, software it ran (as the "OS"), Network and billing were all handled by one entity. And only this entity could approve software for distribution. It was a completely centralized walled garden. Office, Netflix, Youtube Premium, Spotify, Blackblaze can all run anywhere, and on platforms such as Windows are free to do their own distribution.