You may be right. My rebuttal is that Apple can only make system API changes through releasing new iOS versions and there have been many cases where they make

You may be right. My rebuttal is that Apple can only make system API changes through releasing new iOS versions and there have been many cases where they make an API change to kill competition. Does YouTube music have the same system-wide integration that Apple Music does? No. Look at Dropbox even: Some versions ago Apple took away iOS app’s ability to upload in the background while Apple’s Photos app is free to do it 24/7. A user who takes a lot of photos and likes to store them in the cloud is either an iCloud user where everything works automatically, or a non-iCloud user where files are stalled until the app is on-screen for however long it takes to transfer them. Apologies for getting ranty there. It’s hard to watch big tech these days, especially as someone who sees how much has been taken from us already.