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Why Won't Apple Sell Your iTunes LPs?

Posted by timothy on from the can-anyone-think-of-a-reason? dept.

jfruhlinger writes "Over the weekend there's been a bit of controversy over the fact that Apple has effectively shut indie artists out of the iTunes LP market by charging $10,000 in design fees. But the real question is why Apple is in charge of designing the new iTunes LP at all, since the format is based on open Web design technologies. There's at least one iTunes LP already available outside the iTunes store. Why won't Apple sell it?"

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  1. Re:Groan ... Pay More Money for What Exactly? by 99BottlesOfBeerInMyF · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wait... Right Click on a Mac?!?! You mean they hid functionality into a context menu?

    Apple never hides functionality in a context menu. They offer it in a right click context menu in addition to offering it in a location you get to with a single click. In this case, that is the action menu in each finder window (looks like a little gear). You can also get to it from the CLI just by using the "cd" command to navigate into the folder. That doesn't mean OS X now has the same usability as Linux.