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I think it is a fair comparison because that is the goal.

Apple wants to become AOL/minitel, just like everyone else (desperately) wants to become AOL/minitel. That's the goal - it's the end-game.

Provided nobody gets in their way, and they don't screw it up, that's what they will try to become.

It's all laid out very clearly with more than a century of research and backup data in the book _The Master Switch_ by Tim Wu.