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by qingcharles 1064 days ago
> Windows Media Player had ten music stores integrated all selling DRM'd WMA files...

Apologies. This was me. Pretty much all 10. Most of them were just white-labels of the same code. Believe me, I hated doing it. MS didn't want to do the right thing and vertically-integrate everything like Apple was doing, which was the better solution as then you owned the entire user experience from end-to-end.

We know how that story ended.

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Yes I could tell they were white label. One supermarket chain in the UK was offering everything from pet insurance and funeral insurance to phone plans and digital music. The way it was listed in the interface among so many other random brands was hilarious to me.