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Music-industry sources say Apple is interfering with Jay Z’s music-streaming service Tidal in an attempt to crush it ahead of the relaunch of Apple’s Beats Music, set for June. Last week it emerged that Tidal, following its March 30 launch, has fallen out of the iPhone top 700 apps. But positioning in the app charts Read More …
As with Apple Pay, an Apple TV the data-sharing arrangement with the networks would not be possible — or at least less likely — if Apple had designs on monetizing those data itself, such as by establishing its own programmatic video ad platform. Once again, Apple is apparently willing to forgo its proprietary access to its user data in the interests of the broader ecosystem and its own strategic position within it. Read More …