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Quote: Originally Posted by sprockkets What did apple do to make "premium" "differentiated, more attractive music experience"? All they did was start selling music online. Whoopdy doo. Its called the iPod + iTunes which resulted in the most …
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10% sounds really great on Google's part, but what is yet to be determined is will people use the Onepass for purchases? 90% of not much is exactly that. We know Apple can sell media through its purchase model. The question is, will 90% of Google sa…
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Why is iTunes music store the #1 music retailer in world when all the music they sell is available for cheaper or free on the internet? Because Apple provides the easiest 1-click method of delivery on the most popular device for playing that music…
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Quote: Originally Posted by noirdesir How many iPods and iPhones less would Apple have sold if Microsoft had blocked iTunes on Windows? A very significant proportion. If MS had asked for a percentage for each iPod/iPhone synced on Windows, how wo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd They dont host any content. ( is it worth replying to every moron, I wonder?) The hosting part is irrelevant. Any grocery store could care less how much Pepsi spends on it warehouses. The iPad provides the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Wiggin I disagree. 30% for nothing more than processing the payment and passing the data? If the person purchased within the app, the iTunes UI/browser wasn't used. Apple didn't perform any marketing to get the attenti…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Charel Nowhere do I see the cost of a traditional paper from paper, printing, distribution and delivery compared to the 30% cut on iTunes. I suspect that the only reason for the papers’ unease is the lack of feedback…
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Quote: Originally Posted by dualie Physical media is a PITA frankly, and nearly everything is available for download these days. I do feel sorry for those who will lose their jobs because Apple stops making packaging materials. Not at all conc…
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Good-bye boxed software! I can't wait for day when all software is licensed to the individual and no longer tied a specific computer or DRM'd by a specific media format.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Menno And remember, Apple ran their "I'm a mac" ads for years, blatently mocking well over 90% of their potential buyers. Actually they weren't mocking their potential buyers, they were mocking window OS, which many…
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Quote: Originally Posted by GT500CA "This morning, Verizon Wireless announced that presales for iPhone 4 had exhausted the initial supply estimated to be available in just two hours. It did not say how many devices it had been allocated for these…
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Quote: Originally Posted by rain I agree completely. Android is going to lay waste to iOS by year end. Apple is making the exact same mistake it did with Microsoft and desktop computing. Exact. Apple is determined to be a boutique technolog…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tjw They have banned people who have a magazine subscription from getting free access on the equivalent iPad apps for God sake. It's a joke. Not really, try walking into 7-11 and pick up a newspaper or magazine and …
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Quote: Originally Posted by yuusharo Well this is certainly a sad state of affairs. Apple's pissed that competitors are skirting around their 30% cut by offering purchases outside the App Store, so now they're enforcing a rule that they were kee…
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I knew those sale figures were bunk when I started to see the buy one get one free Galaxy Tab ads. I doubt they're even manufacturing more for restocking the channel after the initial 2 million sold, as Best Buy and other retailers have reduced the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by crustyjusty This should probably be titled "Apple now the highest-revenue phone vendor on earth," or something like that. Because Nokia is a larger company and sells more phones, in terms of # of units. Apple just hap…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lav1daloca I'm not against Apple's App Store, I just think it shouldn't be the only place where we can install a program in the iPhone. Iphone can be easily jail broken and the rest internet has to offer is read…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Smallwheels If the article is correct and people prefer to use their mobile phones for games over any other device, does that mean that the iPhone will eventually kill off the iPod Touch? I don't want my young son t…
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Huge sales for this holiday season, really how can you predict otherwise. As far the USB, guys its a portable wireless device, why does every want to wire down it to other devices. And please don't give me thousand reasons why you want to anchor it …
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Funny I don't see Apple running away from anyone with their tail between their legs as the story claims, considering they have probably one the best legal teams corporate money can buy.