The key though is that faster and cheaper tools for trying allows someone to fail faster, thus mitigating the impact of their failed potential career and allowi

The key though is that faster and cheaper tools for trying allows someone to fail faster, thus mitigating the impact of their failed potential career and allowing them to try or evolve faster. A lot of these tools are built on open source frameworks, but rely on the network effect for their staying power and financial momentum. You could do the distribution yourself, but you'll have to do it on the open internet, not on a "Internet of Things" that is supported by the walled garden purveyors. This isn't too difficult to do, but is obviously out of the scope of something a musician might attempt. What I'm getting at is that if they do charge too much, they'll end up undercut by some other media, unless they gain a "standard for enterprise" market saturation, then they can charge what they want since they own all the customers capable of buying your product. Since as soon as someone becomes "standard for anything", the NSA soon comes knocking at your door for a piece of your data pie, thus fueling the creation of yet more "gardens" until what end, I don't know.