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Re:Last.fm co-founder: Apple just fucked over online music s... by Retric on Thursday February 17, 2011 @09:29AM (#2231000)
The obvious long term result is Spotify, Last.fm, Netflix etc are going to dump apple. Then a new company will resell Last.fm content at a 40% markup to sidestep the apple rules. Bad PR is then going to force apple to rethink their stance.

However, I expect Apple is going to offer "deals" to the major players.

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Re:Last.fm co-founder: Apple just fucked over online music s... by coffeedrinker on Thursday February 17, 2011 @11:34AM (#2231531)
I think Apple will be happy to have all the music subscription apps go away. They bought lala.com and I expect them to have an iTunes subscription service before long.
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