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I would hope that apple has some control over plan price increases. It would be very bad for apple if the carriers they wed themselves too start behaving "badl
by dougp 18y ago
I would hope that apple has some control over plan price increases. It would be very bad for apple if the carriers they wed themselves too start behaving "badly".
- raganwald 18y agoLooking at Apple's business with the music labels and now with the carriers, they seem to have taken "Where there's muck, there's brass" to heart (thanks, Paul). Their business model seems to be cleaning up the muck, first in music and now in telephony. I expect an ongoing struggle between Apple's philosophy (simple, straightforward products and pricing) and their partners' philosophies (pay for a song, pay for a ringtone from that song, pay for the bits to move the song over the air, pay for the bits to move the ringtone over the air, system acccess fees, &c.) Oh wait, I forgot: and what you pay differs depending on whether "over the air" is wifi or 3G. Muck indeed, Apple has an Augean task ahead of itself.