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What Apple Music can do to catch up with Spotify

Apple ignited the legal music-download revolution with iTunes, fed the fire by dropping copy-protecting DRM from its music downloads, and in 2007 led a major upgrade in digital-music quality with the launch of iTunes Plus. But a decade-plus later, the company finds itself a music-streaming laggard, to borrow a term Steve Jobs used to throw around. When it comes to music quality, Apple’s not streets ahead—it’s streets behind.

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