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Apparently not one to mince words, Last.fm founder Richard Jones lambasted Apple for their recently announced app store subscription rules.
“Apple just < censored > over online music subs for the iPhone,” Jones wrote in an IRC chat earlier this week. Two days ago, Rhapsody also chastised Apple’s new policy, explaining that giving Apple a 30% cut on all subscriptions originating from an iOS app wasn’t economically viable.
Taking things further, Jones angrily theorized that by effectively preventing subscription services like Rhapsody and Spotify from thriving on iTunes, Apple is paving the way for its own music subscription service where it will, surprise surprise, face little to no competition. Apple, though, has expressed little, if any, interest in setting up a subscription music service. Steve Jobs famously likes to say that “people want to own their music, not rent it.” But let’s say Apple pulls an about face and offers iTunes subscriptions down the line, the anti-competitive implications of Apple’s 30% subscription rule might then carry some weight. As it stands now, it’s hard to plausibly argue that Apple is in violation of anti-trust regulations when market competition with the iOS app store and the iPhone is immense.
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I can't link to the article itself as they did not censor it. You can find it over at www.edibleapple.com. The article is dated today.
Job's ego built and will destroy Apple. Just like it almost always does for his projects.
“Apple just < censored > over online music subs for the iPhone,” Jones wrote in an IRC chat earlier this week. Two days ago, Rhapsody also chastised Apple’s new policy, explaining that giving Apple a 30% cut on all subscriptions originating from an iOS app wasn’t economically viable.
Taking things further, Jones angrily theorized that by effectively preventing subscription services like Rhapsody and Spotify from thriving on iTunes, Apple is paving the way for its own music subscription service where it will, surprise surprise, face little to no competition. Apple, though, has expressed little, if any, interest in setting up a subscription music service. Steve Jobs famously likes to say that “people want to own their music, not rent it.” But let’s say Apple pulls an about face and offers iTunes subscriptions down the line, the anti-competitive implications of Apple’s 30% subscription rule might then carry some weight. As it stands now, it’s hard to plausibly argue that Apple is in violation of anti-trust regulations when market competition with the iOS app store and the iPhone is immense.
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I can't link to the article itself as they did not censor it. You can find it over at www.edibleapple.com. The article is dated today.
Job's ego built and will destroy Apple. Just like it almost always does for his projects.
