Comments on: What NBC was thinking as they were writing http://www.variousandsundry.com/2007/09/02/what-nbc-was-thinking-as-they-were-writing/ The random non-photographic musings of Augie De Blieck Jr. Sun, 03 Jul 2011 04:03:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Nick http://www.variousandsundry.com/2007/09/02/what-nbc-was-thinking-as-they-were-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-127818 Nick Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:00:08 +0000 http://www.variousandsundry.com/2007/09/02/what-nbc-was-thinking-as-they-were-writing/#comment-127818 Bart makes an interesting point. In the end, I think this shows how powerful Apple can be... they can control the price point of their own products AND other company's products! In the end, I think that NBC was trying to bully Apple into doing what NBC wanted, and Apple called their bluff. I think NBC will suffer from this more than Apple will. I think NBC should have the ability to price their products; however, I also think that pricing shows above $1.99 each is ludicrous, and that bundling shows together isn't a great idea either. By preventing NBC from doing this, I think Apple has stopped a diluting of iTunes, which is good. Bart makes an interesting point. In the end, I think this shows how powerful Apple can be… they can control the price point of their own products AND other company’s products!

In the end, I think that NBC was trying to bully Apple into doing what NBC wanted, and Apple called their bluff. I think NBC will suffer from this more than Apple will. I think NBC should have the ability to price their products; however, I also think that pricing shows above $1.99 each is ludicrous, and that bundling shows together isn’t a great idea either. By preventing NBC from doing this, I think Apple has stopped a diluting of iTunes, which is good.

]]> By: Bart Smith http://www.variousandsundry.com/2007/09/02/what-nbc-was-thinking-as-they-were-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-127812 Bart Smith Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:25:55 +0000 http://www.variousandsundry.com/2007/09/02/what-nbc-was-thinking-as-they-were-writing/#comment-127812 "Hey, their site, their rules." You could say the same thing about Best Buy and Circuit City stores, but they can't set the prices of iPods and Macs at anything other than the prices that Apple gives them. “Hey, their site, their rules.”

You could say the same thing about Best Buy and Circuit City stores, but they can’t set the prices of iPods and Macs at anything other than the prices that Apple gives them.

]]> By: Rick H http://www.variousandsundry.com/2007/09/02/what-nbc-was-thinking-as-they-were-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-127793 Rick H Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:07:17 +0000 http://www.variousandsundry.com/2007/09/02/what-nbc-was-thinking-as-they-were-writing/#comment-127793 Hey, their site, their rules. Hey, their site, their rules.

]]> By: Bart http://www.variousandsundry.com/2007/09/02/what-nbc-was-thinking-as-they-were-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-127553 Bart Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:21:53 +0000 http://www.variousandsundry.com/2007/09/02/what-nbc-was-thinking-as-they-were-writing/#comment-127553 Does anyone else see the hypocrisy with Apple controlling retail price point of their products but not allowing content providers to do the same with iTunes? Does anyone else see the hypocrisy with Apple controlling retail price point of their products but not allowing content providers to do the same with iTunes?

]]> By: Eric Gimlin http://www.variousandsundry.com/2007/09/02/what-nbc-was-thinking-as-they-were-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-127540 Eric Gimlin Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:33:29 +0000 http://www.variousandsundry.com/2007/09/02/what-nbc-was-thinking-as-they-were-writing/#comment-127540 The thing that really just makes NO sense to me- not that any of it is clear- is the whole "steps to prevent piracy" thing. The whole point of iTunes is to make stuff affordable and easy to get so people will pay rather than pirate it. And they have multiple levels of protection available; that's part of the point of iTunes Plus. Is there something I haven't heard of where iTunes was the only source of something that was subsequently pirated? Oh, well. I'm just glad I was holding out for Heroes on DVD, I really do need to pick that up. The thing that really just makes NO sense to me- not that any of it is clear- is the whole “steps to prevent piracy” thing. The whole point of iTunes is to make stuff affordable and easy to get so people will pay rather than pirate it. And they have multiple levels of protection available; that’s part of the point of iTunes Plus. Is there something I haven’t heard of where iTunes was the only source of something that was subsequently pirated?

Oh, well. I’m just glad I was holding out for Heroes on DVD, I really do need to pick that up.

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