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> I'm surprised even Shazam still makes commercial sense.

Isn’t Shazam owned by Apple now? It doesn’t need to make “financial sense” if it’s a service Apple runs.

I disagree. Apple isn't like Google/FB where they take a loss on a service and make it back on the backend with ads. Apple seems like they evaluate each service as if it were a physical product ie it costs X and each service needs to stand on its own and make X + Y back.

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