Linked by alcibiades on Tue 30th May 2006 20:40 UTC Permalink
for comment 129438 Member since:  Pundits foam at the mouth
telling everyone that Apple should compete on the same terms as
a software company with virtually no overhead whose primary
markets are hardware manufacturers and corporate customers.
I've made no complaint about Apple's business model for selling
computers. It's not a scalable model, but it's worked well
enough keep Apple in business servicing a small but not
insignificant niche.  What I fail to hear from anyone predicting
iTMS' demise is the exact mechanics of it happening  As I've
stated elsewhere, under the assumption that DRM protected media,
whether distributed online or on a physical medium, will
eventually grow to replace the current model of unprotected
media distributed on CDs, were Apple to continue to dominate the
market for DRM media to the same extent they currently do, it
would result in an Apple monopoly occupying the role currently
played by every record store and every m