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iPod Tax Causes Sour Apples

Posted by Zonk on from the looking-for-pennies-under-the-couch-cushions dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Apple Computer is stepping up its push to get iPod accessory makers to pay for the right to connect to the popular music player." From the article: "It's not clear what means Apple might employ if companies don't go along, as Apple declined to comment on that. Though many manufacturers have signed up for the program so far, some have complained in private that it's too high a price. But for Apple, the move is a chance to profit further from the empire it has built on the iPod, given that the market for such add-ons is estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars per year."

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  1. Just patent white... by Stradenko · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...When used with a portable music player, then for any third-party accessory to match the ipod, they'd have to license Apple's patent...charge extra for the right to use Apple's "White Power certified" trademark on their accessory.

    No true ipod weenie would buy or use a non-matching accessory.

  2. Love/Hate by steelshadow · · Score: 3, Funny

    So wait, do we love or hate Apple today?

  3. Hell has frozen over today. by CDPatten · · Score: 5, Funny

    First MS releases an innovative wireless software with source. Then Google screws with privacy and Apple becomes "evil" and screws some vendors. Yikes! The /. Crew most not be happy today!

  4. Its called "Geek Capital" by MarkGriz · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Let me put it to you this way: I earned capital with the iPod, geek capital, and now I intend to spend it. It is my style" -- Steve Jobs

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    Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.