You're right - I must be imagining my Macbook, Apple TV, iPad and iPhone. Funny how the transactions for them show up on my credit card statements!
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You're right - I must be imagining my Macbook, Apple TV, iPad and iPhone. Funny how the transactions for them show up on my credit card statements!
Apple colluded with suppliers to raise consumer pricing so they could get into a market at a much higher level of profitability than anyone in that market had been enjoying and succeeded at doing just that. They hurt consumers and competitors to line their own pockets. It's pretty hard to spin that positively.
If you read all the testimony and evidence, you would see that Apple never cared about how cheap the publishers were going to sell ebooks for. In fact, Apple preferred a lower price. Apple is only interested in selling ebooks as a means to sell more iPads, iPods, iPhones, etc.
All apple wanted was 30% of the sale price. A straight cut. If publishers wanted to sell their ebooks for $1, Apple would get 30 cents. They just don't care. They just want to ensure content is available for the iDevices they sell. Apple was concerned that publishers wanted to price the ebooks too high. Higher prices = less people wanting ebooks = less people buying iPads, etc.
Apple's model wouldn't work if Amazon was able to continue to sell books as loss leaders so they insisted on the Most Favored Nation clause - something that MANY other large businesses do all the time, but don't get sued for price fixing.
That certainly went well for Jobs and his patent insanity against Android last time Apple took that attitude.
If Cue manages to burn another multiple billion dollars for no effect, and continues to be responsible for most of Apple's most in trouble operations (iTunes music revenue in collapse, iTunes Video marketshare going to be lost to Google Play in the next 6 months on all trends, the continued Maps disaster etc etc) then how long has he got left at Apple? That would have been an unthinkable statement five years ago.
Well, and there is Amazon which is _really_ trying to corner the eBook market. By all means. And there is Apple, trying to break the monopoly. And then there are people who have no idea what this case is about and deliberately misinterpret what Eddy Cue says.
Taking into account that publishers got less money with the agency model it seems that it doesn't look like a sound argument
Also, what is wrong with the music app on iOS? Genuinely interested as I use it daily and don't have any problems with it.
I don't understand the intricacies of this case but for someone who thinks Apple is in the right here, could they explain to me what is the problem if Amazon wants to sell some books at a loss in order to draw people into their shop. Isn't that like the normal supermarket practice of using 'loss leaders' to draw customers into their shop where they know that they'll likely purchase other stuff.
Personally I do not think it is wise business practice but if people are dumb enough to get tricked by this type of subterfuge then that's their own fault. It could be compared even to a shop offering interest free credit for 6 months, knowing full well that the loss will work to their long term advantage because people are weak. However if someone is not weak they can use it to their own advantage.
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Because, surprise, surprise, people like their credit cards.
They could have just matched Amazon's prices. That's how most businesses compete.
Instead Apple agreed to higher ebook prices in exchange for a most favored nations clause.
I don't understand the intricacies of this case but for someone who thinks Apple is in the right here, could they explain to me what is the problem if Amazon wants to sell some books at a loss in order to draw people into their shop. Isn't that like the normal supermarket practice of using 'loss leaders' to draw customers into their shop where they know that they'll likely purchase other stuff.
Personally I do not think it is wise business practice but if people are dumb enough to get tricked by this type of subterfuge then that's their own fault. It could be compared even to a shop offering interest free credit for 6 months, knowing full well that the loss will work to their long term advantage because people are weak. However if someone is not weak they can use it to their own advantage.
You've got it backward. In most cases, the publishers make more money from the agency model (utilized by Apple) than the wholesale model (utilized by Amazon).
This is true in once sense and not in another. The average price per unit of digital books from those publishers went up. The average price per title went down. Another way to say it is that the price of digital bestsellers went up and the price of the rest of the catalog went down.
Apple's model wouldn't work if Amazon was able to continue to sell books as loss leaders so they insisted on the Most Favored Nation clause - something that MANY other large businesses do all the time, but don't get sued for price fixing.
Publishers colluded to fix prices. Apple's iPad offered an alternative to Kindle that the publishers used to break Amazon's monopoly. Doesn't mean Apple was trying to raise book prices or fix book prices.
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You've got it backward. In most cases, the publishers make more money from the agency model (utilized by Apple) than the wholesale model (utilized by Amazon).
Apple's model wouldn't work if all the other stored were able to continue to sell books with wholesale model so they were forced to change to agency model.
And this is the what the case is about and not the MFN, they forced all the stores to one model and they set the price the same for all the stores.
Maybe it's just me but I have crazy lag (both on 5s and 6) and often times the app will randomly go into this weird album cover mode for several seconds and then go back to whatever song I was playing. Another example: I have the Beatles box set; some songs show up under the correct album, others show up under an album called The Beatles Boxed Set and most of the albums aren't displaying the correct album art. Just a mess.