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> Any competitor can license music from all of the music providers. There is no reason for most people to keep both Spotify and Apple Music.

Android is 81% of the US market.

Unless Apple Music comes to android, I don't see Spotify being threatened.

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Android may be “81%” of the market but then you have to subtract China and you have to take into account where the paying customers are.

Apple has more than half the number of paying customers with a much smaller phone market share (https://www.cultofmac.com/605166/spotify-now-has-96-million-...)

It’s well known that Android users don’t spend nearly as much as iOS users.

Apple Music is available on Android and the web. It’s not a “walled” service like iMessage or FaceTime is.

> It’s not a “walled” service like iMessage or FaceTime is.

Steve Jobs promised that FaceTime would be open source… eventually: https://www.cnet.com/news/steve-jobs-promised-to-make-faceti...

Any time now.

It’s walled because of patent litigation with VirnetX, not because Apple wanted to keep it walled.

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