Apple Confirms Its $3 Billion Deal for Beats Electronics

Re:Apple Confirms Its $3 Billion Deal for Beats Electronics by samstave on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @05:37PM (#7813137)

Apple made 170 Billion dollars last year. They are insane not to try to spend chump change on the music industry. The own the delivery of sound from that industry INTO a vast % of the consumers of it.

Apple is going to own the entire experience of media consumption for some % of their customer base.

They will be the label, the distribution, the hardware and the content. A 100% apple audio feed, all wrapped up in a tight little box tied directly to your bank account. Every click costs you something.

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Re:Apple Confirms Its $3 Billion Deal for Beats Electronics by SoftwareMaven on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @05:50PM (#7813188)

Apple has never been one to nickle and dime their customers. While I have little doubt the model will have some component of "you pay for what you use", you can be sure it will be done in such a way that 1) much of the cost is buried in the cost of the hardware and 2) if doesn't feel like every click is costing you something.

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Re:Apple Confirms Its $3 Billion Deal for Beats Electronics by bitserf on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @06:40PM (#7813419)

In general, perhaps not, but for a specific example, iCloud storage.

At a minimum, there should be enough storage for a full backup of each device.

NZ$125/year for 50GB is, to put it mildly, somewhat subpar.

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