It's simple. They moved into the subscription service business with MTV because they could not let their business model be seen to fail (stranded subscribers when one goes out of business). They will have to do that for the hardware business too as it becomes clear that no one can gain economies of scale to challenge Apple.
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It's simple. They moved into the subscription service business with MTV because they could not let their business model be seen to fail (stranded subscribers when one goes out of business). They will have to do that for the hardware business too as it becomes clear that no one can gain economies of scale to challenge Apple. http://homepage.mac.com/bagelturf