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What will Apple Do About Price Shoppers?

  • Change match logarithms so that purchased mpegs don't match?

    Votes: 1 25.0%
  • Lower their prices to match Amazon and others?

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Do nothing as few people will be a price shopper?

    Votes: 3 75.0%

  • Total voters
    4

philipk

macrumors 6502
Original poster
Jun 11, 2008
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I wonder if Apple realizes that they gave the consumer a price shopper tool.

Last night I was watch the Sopranos episode "In Camelot". It ended with the theme from the Jackie Gleason Show, "Melancholy Serenade". That song took me back to my childhood.

Tonight I went to the iTunes store and was surprised that it sold for $1.29. I then went to the Amazon store and bought it for $.99. I downloaded it and added it to iTunes. It was a 161 kbps mpeg. I matched it. Deleted it. And now have it as an iTunes 256 kbps.

I was willing to try this as I have had a 100% match rate with my perviously purchased non-DRM mpegs that I bought in the past.

So what will Apple do?
 
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