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optimuspaul on March 17, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Popcorn Time 4.0

perhaps, I think iTunes did so well because of iPods and iPhones.

Holmes on March 21, 2020 [–]

People had gigabytes of free music on their computers and wanted a place to store them that enabled easy playback, hence the iPod. iTunes removed the friction necessary in piracy and priced inventory low enough to emerge as a viable alternative.

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