Digital Downloads
Is there another kind of download that is not digital? Just say 'downloads'.
The United States Federal Trade Commission is investigating Apple, again, following concerns that its to-be-relaunched Beats Music streaming service may gain an unfair advantage by exploiting the market dominance of Apple's iTunes store. An inquiry by the antitrust G-men could interrupt a much touted launch of the Cupertino- …
I don't understand your complaint. Apple lets you use a different mail app but you think it is a "fail" because you don't like where that preference is changed? Microsoft didn't let you change the default browser at all until they were forced to do, and things didn't work right when you did so. Your comparison is a FAIL.
>... you can only modify your default ...
Better that a means to alter the default be found in an expectable location than to have each new application installed attempt to land-grab, frontier-style, the relevant lot of URLs, MIME Types, protocols etc. for itself--covertly and forcibly. Incidentally:
http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/
it's not exactly IE over Netscape all over again (certainly no 'market dominance of itunes in linux land). Might be bundled with OS-X (never used it), but it's not exactly the dominant platform, and neither is IOS.
This wouldn't be at the prodding of other interest groups still miffed at their long running strangle-hold on music being broken, partially by innovation (not necessarily purely fruity) and mostly by their own intransigence.