Posted by Don M. on 09/27/05 20:09

"FunkyDevil" <qs8rzr001@sneakemail.com> wrote in message
news:1127841818.827438.306760@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Don M. wrote:
> > "NRen2k5" wrote in message news:92xZe.12378$UA1.7827@wagner.videotron.net...
> > > That's not necessarily bad. Look what the record industry does with old
> > > albums: They
> > > raise the prices.
> > >
> > > - NRen2k5
> >
> > Which part is not necessarily bad?
> > The music industry proposed higher prices for new albums *and* lower prices for old
> > albums. Jobs said he doesn't want higher and lower. The article above, not
surprisingly,
> > ignored the second part.
> >
>
> Well I know they're not complaining about selling things for a lower
> price , nobody believes they are fighting itunes for lower prices.
========

Yet the truth is, the greedy industry is fighting greedy Jobs for a variable price
structure that includes both higher and lower prices. Why keep perpetuating the myth that
this is about Jobs fighting *only* against higher prices imposed by the greedy industry?
He's a pot calling the kettle black.


>
> The recording industry sells the music wholesale and it's the retailers
> who decide how to price it. So, if the recording industry is upset with
> how Steve Jobs is pricing music, then they should charge him more and
> let him make the decision. They should have no say in the final
> consumer price.
>

Essentially what you're saying is that they should be able to charge Job less for older
records and more for current stuff and let Jobs decide selling price... Fine with me.
Regardless, "Saint" Steve Jobs is *not* on a apparent crusade against greed as being
implied and glorified in the one-sided reports. I think Apple's stockholders would cringe
at the idea of Jobs not being in it for the money, and as much money as he can make for
the investors. Some people like to think of Apple as a hip playground, but it is really
big business, as greedy and nasty as it can get.


Don

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