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"You can have an online music store without waging a format war and trying to control how people use their music." You can do this today only because Apple wen
by Steko 15y ago
"You can have an online music store without waging a format war and trying to control how people use their music."
You can do this today only because Apple went to bat with the labels, won a bunch of freedoms, had a crapton of success and the labels (fearing Apple's leverage) gave even more freedoms to Amazon et al.
- mishmash 15y agoExactly and some time down the line when Google/Amazon/Microsoft/Canocial inevitably offer an equivalent service/price it will be because Apple validated the model. The only interesting part will be if the labels make the iTunes clones pony-up the large upfront fees Apple did.