It offered rapid fetching of HD content.
In 2018, this felt righteous. The cloud was ephemeral. Services like iTunes were beginning to remove purchased songs due to licensing changes. The APK downloader was a protest tool. It said: "I paid for my Mac. I paid for my internet. The file is on my screen. It is mine."
By 2018, the "Golden Age of Streaming" had become the "Era of the Great Fracture." Netflix lost Friends and The Office to Peacock and HBO Max (which didn't even exist yet in some regions). Music was split between Spotify, Apple Music, and SoundCloud.
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