On Sunday, Samsung announced that it will be partnering with Apple to offer access to iTunes on its 2018 and 2019 lines of smart TVs. Apple’s services business—including iTunes and Apple Music—brought in US$10.8 billion in revenues in the last quarter of 2018. In his letter to investors, CEO Tim Cook indicates the success of its services business, saying that it grew “to a new quarterly record in every geographic segment,” and that the company is on track to double the size of the business from where it was in 2016 by 2020. (BuzzFeed)

Talking point: It’s the first time Apple has expanded access to iTunes outside of its own hardware. In December 2018, Apple started letting Apple Music users access to the platform through Amazon’s Echo devices. With Apple’s announcement last week that it would not meet its own revenue estimates for the first quarter of 2019, continuing to optimize its services across a diverse array of platform options could help the company correct course. Apple said Samsung will not be able to track usage inside the iTunes Movies & TV Shows app, but continued off-platform expansion does make Apple vulnerable to some of the privacy concerns felled upon other tech companies—something that the company is flaunting this week at CES, where those attending were greeted by a billboard from Apple touting privacy.