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Originally Posted by fjtorres
All *that* could have happened...
...if the market had been allowed to mature naturally.
The Agency Conspiracy and the four hour price war put an end to it in June 2010.
Now we deal with the consequences: walled gardens as far as the eye can see.
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You can try to blame agency pricing for walled-gardens, but the truth is it's Amazon's natural business model. They learned from Apple who were able to monetize online-audio by erecting a walled-garden and tying it to a popular and exclusive hardware platform, just like Amazon. Amazon has never shown the slightest inclination to an open system.