According to the Financial Times, Apple is (still) considering
an "all-you-can-eat" subscription model, which is strange,
because why would anyone want to eat digital music? They must
mean "listen." Yes, as speculated before (in order to figure out
what Jobs will be doing in a year, just listen to what he says
he won't do now, apparently), Apple might come up with a plan
where you would pay either a monthly fee or a lifetime
subscription to download music from iTunes presumably straight
into your iPod or iPhone.  Supposedly what's holding the deal up
isn't the price negotiation between consumers and Apple, it's
between Apple and the record companies. Nokia, which is planning
a similar deal, is reportedly happy to pay $80 per device to the
music companies for the rights, but Apple is only offering $20.
Which makes sense -- Apple is the 800 lb. gorilla in the media
device market, and so they have the ability in most cases to pay
what they want or not bother. If the two sides do come to a
deal, however, even th