Did Apple Tell Warner Music Group, "Hey, We Can Be Jerks, Too"? [Rumors]

File under "scenarios that I kind of wished had played out in real time": "Apple had reportedly been sufficiently annoyed by [Warner Music Group's decision to pull Estelle's Shine from the iTunes Store] that it threatened to retaliate by pulling all mentions of WMG product from the various splash pages of the iTunes Store on a worldwide basis, apart from Metallica. Had Warner not capitulated, the absence of iTunes visibility would have had a devastating impact on Q4 sales, while the leadership o...

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