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But the second doesn’t apply - you can’t listen to Apple Music with a different app, you have to use their app.

You can listen to it in a browser. You can use an iPad. There are many ways to use Apple Music that do not involve an Android app.

This, but to take this even further, MusicKit and the Apple Music APIs even allow for 3rd party Android apps to play back purchased content.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/musickitjs

MusicKit JS lets users play songs from Apple Music and their Cloud Library inside your JavaScript app. When a user provides permission to access their Apple Music account, your JavaScript app can create playlists, add songs to their library, and play any of the millions of songs in the Apple Music catalog directly in a browser, with no ...

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