On a personal note, I never in my life want to see advertisements for third-party software by default.
You might want to avoid buying any new Apple products then, or your iPhone settings screen will regularly show you adverts for free trials for Apple News, Apple TV, Apple fitness, Apple Arcade.
Better still, unlike every other free trial in this ecosystem, these terminate the moment you cancel the trial, rather than at the end of the trial period.
Apparently they didn’t because Apple Music boomed right after that change.
> It is by no means unfair, immoral, or unethical for a company to prefer and promote their own products.
It is when that company is one part of a duopoly, especially for a device pretty critical to daily life :+)
> On a personal note, I never in my life want to see advertisements for third-party software by default.
It’s a one-time pop-up, on opening the music app the first time. Same as the browser choice pop-up on your desktop. Hardly an advertisement.
I wonder how much offering discounted subscriptions to students or iCloud Family users also contributed to its success.
> It’s a one-time pop-up, on opening the music app the first time. Same as the browser choice pop-up on your desktop. Hardly an advertisement.
I don't like browser selection options either. Then again, I tend to use Apple's default apps unless I have an unusual reason to use something else.
Unfairness is at the heart of so many antitrust lawsuits (whether successful or not). Anyone old enough to recall Microsoft in the 1990s would say that many people (not at MSFT) were pointing out how unfair bundling Internet Explorer was. You may disagree but it was one of the reasons MSFT got sued.
Maybe I misunderstood your point, but could you clarify a bit what you mean? If I open App Store on my iPhone, it is full of third-party software advertisements by default and I don't even know if they can be turned off.
> Seeing them as apart of the normal platform UI (Microsoft Start menu, looking at you) is distasteful.
Then it doesn't sound like a one-time prompt as part of setup would be an issue.