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Originally Posted by Graham
Your post refers to ebooks. As yet there is no confirmation that Apple's new rules will slap 30% on individual ebook sales. If that turns out to be true then I'll agree that they are not providing any service for sales of that sort of content.
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Fair enough. However subscriptions are provided also by Amazon and other players. What about those? Apple provides the same nothing for those subscriptions as it does for e-books. Furthermore it is strongly beleived that Apple's rule applies to all content, e.g. see
Gizmodo.
In a sane world Apple would be able to claim money only for content for which it is at least the retailer. It is obvious however that it is not true for the vast majority of content. It seems clear to me (and to lot of others) that Apple wants a cut also for other content.