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FLASH DANCE!
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On The Verge since Nov 30, 2011
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So what exactly is the business model?
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May as well say the next generation horse drawn carriage comes with 6 horses. That will only get your business so far. They aren’t even skating to where the puck is, let alone where it will be. They are skating to where the puck was 10 years ago.
TiVo could have been at the top of the streaming game but insists on doing exactly what they’ve always done. Now they are making something that would have been great a decade ago for a market that’s in decline.
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You know what a next generation DVR doesn’t need? Tuners.
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Well, they have flavor, just not good flavor.
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Microsoft previously revealed to The Verge that the focus with the new Music app is on playing songs
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$500 for the privilege of spending $60 per game. I think that ship has sailed. It’s completely a niche category now.
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All book prices from those publishers or just some? Link?
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That’s not illegal. I’m sorry people are butt hurt that Twilight is now more expensive, but that’s not illegal. That’s market forces at work.
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Orin Snyder in his opening comments gave out the stat that average price is actually slightly down.
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Orin Snyder in his opening comments gave out the stat that average price is actually slightly down.
Apple most certainly didn’t concede that across the board prices went up.
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All true, but they didn’t have the audience that iOS had. So arguably Apple, by entering the market, accelerated eBook adoption and self-publishing, even benefiting Amazon in the process. The whole market grew, it’s not zero-sum.
Amazon started the big shift to ebooks, no doubt. But Apple disrupted that.
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Yes, prices went up on some books, not all. That’s not illegal, nor is it price fixing. On average, after Apple entered the market, book prices actually fell.
Yes, publishers settled. They probably calculated it was cheaper to settle than go to court. It’s risk analysis.
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But prices weren’t fixed and I defy you to show me any price of a book that Apple fixed with the publishers. Publishers could and can choose any price for any book (up the to maximum) and Apple pays them the same 70%, keeping 30% as per their App Store agency model.
It seems like you’re defending a monopolist (Amazon) who used pricing (via selling at a loss) to exclude competitors. It was ok for Amazon, but not a new entrant. That’s odd.
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I see you keep copying and pasting that but I don’t think you understand what it is saying. MFN and agency pricing isn’t illegal nor is it price fixing.
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No, it’s not price fixing. It’s the exact opposite. Publishers can now control their pricing based on what the market will pay, not an artificial price as Amazon set (which is also not price fixing).
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MFN has never been found illegal.
Why shouldn’t a content creator be able to set the price of their product?
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That’s a silly example. Because in your example station #2 was selling at a loss to make it difficult for any new station to sell gas. And as a result, the suppliers felt that long term this would erode value in their product. So a new station offers to let the suppliers set the price so long as station #1 gets MFN, thereby leveling the playing field for both station #2 and #1.
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They didn’t agree to set the same price. They agreed to use an agency model. Publisher A could sell popular new releases at $15 while Publisher B chooses $10.
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It’s hardly random, it’s still betting on the future value of a company. Personally I don’t see DELL, even with going private, as valued that high.
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Also couldn’t it be argued that by offering an audience and competition Apple encouraged the entrant of lower cost and self-published books, forcing Amazon to also respond?
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PE, not absolute value. Investors care about relative values, not absolute. They want to increase X%. They are betting DELL is better than AAPL, relatively speaking.
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It would be an incredibly stupid business decision to intentionally make less money. Obviously there was a financial benefit to going this route, whether increase volume, better margins, more control over pricing of their assets, something.
What prices were fixed? Did Apple tell them all books had to be a certain price? I’m fairly certain publishers could set the price, just like developers in the App Store.
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So Apple would have had to sell at a loss to compete is what you’re suggesting.
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Shouldn’t popular books cost more and less popular books cost less?
If publishers truly thought they would make less with this deal they wouldn’t have signed on.
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AAPL stock is down because investors are idiots, not because Apple isn’t doing fantastic and better year over year. Investors value AAPL less than DELL for god’s sake! Can any rational person explain that?
