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How Did Taylor Swift Have Great Power

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Taylor Swift possesses great power, and with great power comes great responsibility. She demonstrated this week that she could wield that power for good, when she went against Apple this week, and won. Even Samsung had some trouble accomplishing that. Swift’s ire was aroused when Apple announced earlier in June that it would launch a streaming music service - hoping to go head-to-head with Spotify (Taylor pulled her oeuvre from Spotify for a similar infraction). Apple’s streaming service would come with three free trial months of service and ah, there’s the rub. The all powerful Swift posted an open letter to Apple on a Tumblr post, “To Apple, Love Taylor”, thereafter. By nightfall, Eddy Cue, Apple’s media chief, had announced on Twitter

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