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You're comparing apples and oranges. Apple doesn't provide anything like YouTube. If they did, they would have similar issues - there are all sorts of legal and business constraints associated with that kind of service.

A more appropriate comparison would be comparing the iTunes movie and TV store with Google's equivalent (Google Play Movies & TV):

* Both have movie purchases in over 100 countries. Apple has TV purchases in 6 countries [1]. Google has them in 8 [2]

* Both allow offline download of purchased videos. Google also allows downloading purchases to SD cards (less relevant for Apple).

* Google has a web-based player for purchased videos. Apple doesn't, AFAIK.

* Apple has carrier billing in 6 countries [3]. Google has it in 45 [4]. Google also allows you to use PayPal in a number of countries.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204411

[2] https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/2843119?hl=en

[3] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205102

[4] https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/2651410?hl=en



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