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Originally Posted by stonetools
I've looked at your questions and again
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...and failed to answer the questions. Where are the answers? It is very simple, 3 answers:
1. The added value here is...
2. The added value here is...
3. The added value here is...
I am waiting.
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Your privacy is better protected than with most merchants.
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The audacity of this statement is breathtaking.
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That would not directly affect the price to the comnsumer.
There's a lot of ways that this can be done without significant immpact to the consumer.
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That is a reasonable belief if you have not attended any elementary school math classes.
Once again:
Cost1 = Author + Copyright owner + Publisher + Retailer
Cost2 = Author + Copyright owner + Publisher + Retailer + Apple
Claiming that Cost1 = Cost2 because cost of Apple will be absorbed by the other players is ridiculously (pseudo)naive even from an Apple agitprop agent.
What is more important here is that even if it WAS true (which of course is ridculous assumption) it would be unacceptable to let Apple to extort money from other players for NOTHING.