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Originally Posted by brecklundin
As usual you have zero clue about what was written...you chose to assume a comment is negative in order to be consistently argumentative and confrontational all the freaking time.
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When you use the word gimmick, relegating that sort of perfectly valid business and marketing tactic to the role of a worthless sideshow, you're declaring yourself firmly in line with the publishers demanding they should get to set up a new price cartel rather than in any way actively looking for other soloutions.
THAT is hostile and negative.
I was, as usual, being sarcastic.
Kali Yuga - Two problems there. One, once people go to the darknets, you're going to lose a proportion of them for good. This is obviously not desirable. Secondly, it's a nice graph, but a lot of Apple's hardware decisions seem to be content-driven. You are, I believe, overlooking the importance to them of device tie-in to the content, even when they're not making nearly as much revenue from the content per-se.