> A large part of Apple's success is that they've made it so easy to buy. Applicable to their hardware products only. When it comes to digital goods... they wo

> A large part of Apple's success is that they've made it so easy to buy. Applicable to their hardware products only. When it comes to digital goods... they won't let me purchase anything off the iTunes marketplace without first installing their desktop client, which doesn't even exist for my OS. I wonder what motivates this disparity.