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I wasn't questioning apple's business decisions, I was questioning their emerging monopoly on digital content that is making the digital market even more homoge
by te_chris 15y ago
I wasn't questioning apple's business decisions, I was questioning their emerging monopoly on digital content that is making the digital market even more homogenous than the physical market was. At least in the physical market anyone could open up a music store because there were independent distributors whose sole incentive was to move product, now the incentive is to extract margins on product as Apple and Amazon negotiate directly with the labels and shut out competitors from being able to properly compete because they can't get the content. Some platforms are doing ok in this (bandcamp) but most aren't as the reality of music retail is not the long tail but the centre of the bell curve.
I'm also an Apple developer.