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One worst-case scenario can be found in what happened to CDs in the 90s and 00s. Content companies knew people would buy a CD just to get the one popular song, so they would fill the rest of it with junk.

You could look at any app’s library in a similar way, where there’s only a small set of “good stuff” while the rest is old junk. If they collude to spread the good stuff around all the apps, then you are artificially forced to subscribe to all of them if you want to see that stuff.

Yes, that is their prerogative as content owners, but nobody likes it and you feel like you’re getting robbed instead of feeling like you’re living in an amazing future that’s giving you good value. And it costs more so not good for consumers.