Indeed. Whatever happened to "With the internet, we can cut out the middlemen"? Suddenly, every corporation wants to set up tollboothes along the way and starts demanding their cut.

If this continues, in small steps, we'll be back at the old way, in which the content creator gets only a minimal share of the pie, and it's the distributors that get rich.

I'm all for an open, "flat", neutral infrastructure, so there is no way I'll be buying any Apple products.

  > And then every ISP will demand a cut of every sale that
  > happens on the Internet part of their network.

And then Apple will start collecting monthly fee just because you have iDevice.