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by justinschuh 5099 days ago
>Currently, Google has the best infrastructure to do that, but Apple seems to care more. I live in Holland, for example. No siri, but at least we can buy content from iTunes. Google isnt selling anything but apps in its playstore.

I'm not sure you appreciate the issues at play with licensed content. The iTunes Store opened in 2003 and was restricted to the US for over a year. Apple expanded it into international markets very slowly, over several years time, and didn't even move outside the western world until just last year.

My point is that it takes quite a bit of time and effort to address complex international issues with content licenses and rights holders. Apple has spent almost a decade working on this and they're only recently getting to a level of international ubiquity. Whereas Google has been at it for barely a year, but is moving pretty quickly as far as I can tell.