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Originally Posted by Rizla
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.
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Audio already was monetized and growing when Apple belatedly entered the market.
What Apple brought was not new concepts, groundbreaking hardware, or better pricing. Apple brought a massive preestablished customer base and a monolithic public relations hype machine.
Some people discovered downloadable song purchasing through Apple, but had Apple not jumped into the game things would still reach the point where we are anyway.