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Is $3-4 is a fair price for access to a song, at a time when Apple was selling it for a dollar? You couldn't connect a phone to Verizon's network unless Verizo
by ben1040 9y ago
Is $3-4 is a fair price for access to a song, at a time when Apple was selling it for a dollar?
You couldn't connect a phone to Verizon's network unless Verizon sold it to you.
The phones they sold had the firmware configured to prohibit adding content from any source other than their store, which sold it at an extremely high cost.
- kfriede 9y agoAh, I thought they were referring to buying a song-ringtone. Still, it's not the government's business to be telling Verizon they must sell for $1 or allow competition into their ecosystem.
- s73ver_ 9y agoI believe it is their business to act on price gouging, which that most definitely was.