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Originally Posted by stonetools
Actually, come to think of it, you may be right on that-for now. I would say that Apple does want to make more money selling content in the long run. Certainly its important for Apple that it makes deals with content providers so that it can get content delivered on the iPad
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The last sentence is much more key than the second though.
They want to get as much content as possible onto the iOS platform (and ideally exclusive to the platform), because that enhances its value, and will let them sell more hardware. This is important even if they don't actually make much money selling the content.