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| From | Bob Hutton <bob_hutton@standardlife.com> |
| Subject | iTunes |
| Date | Wed, 23 May 2007 15:52:26 +0100 |
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"Not defending the price at all....just saying that you have to
look at pricing as a self-contained entity based on the country of
origin.....not on the world pricing (which will fluctuate daily from
territory to territory)."
Here's the rub: in the past, no-one bothered about disparity of pricing
between different territories. It wasn't THAT easy to find out what
things cost abroad, you had to dig around for the info. I was amazed the
first time I went to the States that CDs seemed rather cheaper than at
home and I ended up buying a stack of them.
However in the web-age, because you can access the US version of iTunes
from the UK, you can see the pricing differences very easily and the fact
that you can access a website makes it very frustrating that you can't buy
from it. FWIW, eMusic is more expensive in the UK as well.
What I would be interested in seeing is how sales of iTunes vary from
territory to territory. As I said previously I am just not interested in
paying 79 pence per track (nor would I pay 99 cents per track if I lived
in the States). I think the tracks are over-priced for what you get.
Incidentally, there also seems to be a bit of a cartel going on with all
the major online music retailers charging 79p here or 99c in the States.
Does anyone know if iTunes turns a profit? Or is it just a loss-leader
for Apple?
Bob
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