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Beeper says in the article that they'd be willing to pay Apple for use of their resources.

If I broke into your house and started sleeping on your couch, would you be OK with it as long as I promised to pay you rent?

If my house was the size of twelve Tesla Gigafactorys stacked on top of each other, every other door was locked, I could track your movements throughout the house, you had your own private door and couch to sleep on, and I was worth 3 trillion dollars, sure.

Apple is running a hotel, not a house

Even if we accept the terrible metaphor it would be a hotel solely for Apple users

Beeper says that, but they probably don't have the amount of money that Apple thinks is worth using their services.

I'm willing to buy all of your property for $1, but that doesn't give me the right to come use it all, just because in theory there is a price I would pay to have it all.

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