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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
I bet it doesn't in the US, because the cell cos. have decided that apple's 99c/song is too cheap, and $2-3 is a better price for OTA song downloads.
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99c/song
is too cheap, but the iTunes Music Store is a break-even enterprise designed to sell hardware, not turn profit selling music. Why else would Apple freak out when RealMedia comes up with a codec that can read encrypted AAC? If they made money on the downloads, increasing the universe of hardware that can play the tunes would be good news, not lawsuit fodder.
If the person selling the song is different from the person selling the handheld, as will be the case with cell phones where the hardware is subsidized already, the song will be $2 or more, and that's the point at which ripping a friend's CD starts to look attractive by comparison.
ETA: 4000!
