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Apple's deal with the devil makes consumers pay
Nibble
So much for promises of price cuts
Tue Jan 20 2009, 12:46
APPLE'S deal with the record companies which promised iTunes customers music for 69 cents instead of 99 cents seems to have helped the record companies rather than the punters.
While some songs have appeared as 30 cents cheaper most of the songs that people are downloading have been marked up to $1.29.
NPD analyst Russ Crupnick said the price hike enabled the music industry to resolve the question about how it made money now that people were not buying albums. He said punters are now spending $4 when yesterday they were only spending 99 cents. µ
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What a bunch of nonsense!
First of all people aren't SPENDING $4 where they were spending 99 cents because prices won't change until April. That shows that he knows nothing about what is really happening.
Secondly, one won't be forced into buying these packages. They will be offered at discounts over singly packaged songs, not instead of them.
Sheesh! I know that this site loves to mislead just to be able to satisfy some childish sense of humor, but enough is enough!
And they wonder why most people just get their songs from their friend Mr B Torrent.
apple wasn't all that bad when jobs was in charge, but with his current health I think that company is going to fail without him, and they should. Charging more for a song that everyone wants is just going to increase piracy, and if it doesn't, I hope it does anyway cause they deserve it, so does the greedy RIAA. If it was up to me they would all hang, but it isn't and I suppose that is a good thing...for them...
Yeah, that's right Gasp! I wouldn't expect an overpriced, "elitist" company like Apple to want to make a profit either...they want to make a killing! ha ha ha
Problem is, places like Amazon who are also "making a profit" are offering good business so that's where I go. Why waste the time and $$ with crApple?
I don't understand how a song that used to cost .99 cents now costs $4 because they raised the price of most songs to $1.29. Not that either price is fair, but it sounds like a .30 cent bump, not a $3 bump.
I am totally appalled at Apple's attempt to pass on costs to the consumer. Why should they get to make a profit? Who the hell do they think they are?
Don't they know Nick feels "entitlement" to products at Apple's cost?
This was sure to happen, all the most downloaded songs go up in price, supply and demand except here there is a never ending supply. It is all probably computer controlled with certain criteria that sets off the price change. Call me old fashioned but I still like my music on a plastic disk, never downloaded a song yet and never will. Tower Records online does a good job and you can sample the songs before you buy the CD.
"Stoopid is as stoopid does."