30% Apple

[Edward Ned Harvey]

> From: discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org [mailto:discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org] On Behalf
> Of Richard Pieri
> 
> Apple's 35% take from
> music and movies sold from the iTMS.  So, really, Apple is doing nothing
> substantially different with the subscription model than it's been doing
for
> the past 8 years.

There is something fundamentally different.  When you buy an iphone, you
make a substantial investment, and you're required to sign a 2-year
contract.  So when Apple suddenly starts a new policy of charging where they
previously weren't...  That's exploiting a monopoly.