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Originally Posted by david_e
 I really did laugh when I read this, and I do mean this sincerely.
To clarify, I was trying to be as nonspecific as possible as to who gets how much and focus only on the fact that what X can share, X+1 can also share.
I was also in the mood for pie. |
I hope you got some pie, and yes a pie that can be divided between X+1 just as easily (mathematically speaking) as between X.
The issue here is that that's not what's happening.
To use your pie analogy, it's not Grandma coming and the pie getting redivided - it's the teenage cousin coming to the kids table and saying I want a share of your piece of pie - not the whole pie but that one piece - and that share happens to be the size of the kid's piece of pie.
Apple's deal is with the resellers, not the publishers. The resellers can't give up any of the publishers' share because they don't control it. They can only work with their own subset of the already divided pie.
That's why the pie analogy breaks down.