That's different..
If Apple had left those apps in the store used to download "other" pirate music from within the app, that would have been fine by me,,,, but then Apple would be breaking its Terms of Use.... Thus, by removing them Apple could just put up apps, and leave it at that, but they also promotes iTunes Radio,
ie Letting the user know *again* iTunes store and Radio..
Something I'm sure if if used iTunes they would have known anyway
Why do hey need reminded again ? When they chose deliberately to just browse via App Store ? other than pure promotion ?
People are gonna get what they want anyway, shape, or form, no one can stop that
Piracy's been going on since the old Commodore days in 1985 ... and here we are, and Apple still can't stop it, (let alone the music industry), so that's tell you something... While they can offer tracks to download, its only a small piece of the pie.
Nothing is gonna change over-night.
Still, its Apple days. we can only see where they go from here. Even if Apple did remove Safari, people would just use Mozilla, or Chrome..