 BrazbitPremium
join:2003-10-22
Port Orchard, WA | Good for NBC Good for NBC. Apple should not be the one to set the price for what NBC's content is worth, that should be between NBC and the customer.
If NBC had increased the price and not enough users were willing to pay the price would have either come back down or NBC would have decided iTunes was not worth the investment and left anyway. If the market is not worth their time at $1.99 an episode then they did the right thing by leaving. Due to Apple's inflexibility they now have lost the provider of 40% of their video sales.
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Imperial, MO | Re: Good for NBC Due to NBC's mindless greed they now have lost the no overhead profit for their online content.
Fixed it for you
How dare Apple try to not screw consumers. | |
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| Re: Good for NBC said by MacWin:Due to NBC's mindless greed they now have lost the no overhead profit for their online content. Fixed it for you How dare Apple try to not screw consumers. Eventually they may realize the error of their ways and come crawling back to iTunes. When they do, Apple should demand that the shows sell for $0.99!! 
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|  FiLPremium
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Silver Spring, MD | "How dare Apple try to not screw consumers."
really?
Ohh, by that you mean "cute" is SUPPOSED to cost an arm and a leg. ahhh, I get you.
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Imperial, MO | Re: Good for NBC "really?
Ohh, by that you mean "cute" is SUPPOSED to cost an arm and a leg. ahhh, I get you.
In what context ? | |
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|  Combat ChuckToo Many CannibalsPremium
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Erie, PA
1 edit | said by MacWin:How dare Apple try to not screw consumers. Yes, because locking people into Ipods and then making it so it's wear item cannot be easily replaced is good for consumers and has nothing to do with turning a durable good into a disposable good to ensure a stream of income.
I'm sure telling NBC to piss off has absolutely nothing to do with maintaining the false visage of consumer protector by sacrificing a partner they didn't value anyway just to make the easily fooled populace feel good about paying $400 for 1 to 3 years access to an Ipod.
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Erie, PA | Re: Good for NBC said by MacWin:So apparently your lying. $65 to replace a $10 battery, or replacing the battery myself with instructions that start with "find a thin piece of metal to slip between the case then pry off the back"; yeah clearly that's pro consumer.
Seriously you fool, Apple is just as bad as the rest, quit drinking the kool-aid.
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Imperial, MO
1 edit | Re: Good for NBC Well alright douchebag if you want to resort to namecalling. | |
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Erie, PA
1 edit | Re: Good for NBC said by MacWin:Well alright douchebag if you want to resort to namecalling. Well, what else do you call someone who insists that Apple's purposely making the battery unreasonably hard to replace is a good thing? If they did this to their laptops would you still defend them?
Perhaps GM (after making an Ipod dock standard equipment) should start badmouthing the oil companies and welding the gas tanks shut on their cars and then charging $4000 to fill the tank. I mean they really could use the money and it seems that there are quite a few people who are more than happy to defend the practice of making disposable what otherwise would be a durable good.
BTW, I'm an asshole, not a douchebag.
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Imperial, MO | Re: Good for NBC I never said it was a good thing I just pointed out that it isn't the end of the world to get or replace the battery.
And no I wouldn't defend them if they did that to their laptops. But the market wouldn't allow it if they did. There is a reaosn why Apple has been growing so much as compred to the rest of the PC market and it's not because they screw people over.
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Erie, PA | Re: Good for NBC said by MacWin:There is a reaosn why Apple has been growing so much as compred to the rest of the PC market and it's not because they screw people over. Yeah, it's because they screw people over but have a good pr department and a fanatical fanbase, so, as long as you don't think about it too much you feel good about it.
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Imperial, MO | Re: Good for NBC I'm just guessing here but your a big Fox News watcher aren't you ?
I've yet to see you provide any "evidence" to back up your claims and I don't think I will which makes all of this speculation and opinion on your part.
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Erie, PA | Re: Good for NBC said by MacWin:I'm just guessing here but your a big Fox News watcher aren't you ? No, not that that has anything to do with the issue at hand short of an attempt to dodge.
said by MacWin:I've yet to see you provide any "evidence" to back up your claims and I don't think I will which makes all of this speculation and opinion on your part. Kinda like how your statement on NBC's mindless greed is nothing but speculation and opinion on your part?
But of course you don't see anything wrong with apple's practices; you're an apple fanboy, you gladly pay more money to run half the wintel hardware I do so you can run a bloatware version of BSD and run software who's names coordinate well. For you if you can complete a transaction for under $400 at the alter of apple, even if it's because of a bad design (by will or stupidity, tho it's likely will since they haven't corrected it), your doing well.
Look, all I'm saying is Apple is jerking you around just like every other company. If you like their bass ackward crap that's just great; just quit putting a good spin on their selfish, greed based business decisions.
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| $1.99 an episode is exactly $1.99 more than they had been getting before iTunes. Their little LuLu deal with Fox will go nowhere and they will be right back where they were.
How many episodes make up a season of Heros? 12? My son just bought the DVD set of one of the seasons at Target or Walmart for $32. That's $2.66 an episode if there are 12. How much should a low resolution download cost? People buying DVD's would pass if a single season were to cost $72 ($5.99 episode x 12 episodes) and so would iTunes users.
I am confident in saying that the majority of people that shop at iTunes go there for reasons other than NBC content. Apple will be fine and so will iTunes. | |
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|  dleehendHowdyPremium
join:2002-03-11
Malvern, AR | Re: Good for NBC actually there are 23 episodes of Heroes Season 1
That would make them about $1.40 per episode on DVD. Sounds like Itunes pricing may be a little high. 
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Phoenix, AZ | Re: Good for NBC said by dleehend:actually there are 23 episodes of Heroes Season 1 That would make them about $1.40 per episode on DVD. Sounds like Itunes pricing may be a little high. Dont forget the extras you get on the dvds..plus the pilot episode that was not aired...or for download on itunes..:P | |
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North Babylon, NY | Nothing But Crap  | |
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| | That may be the most idiotic statement I've ever read in my life.
NBC just threw away a revenue source that cost them nothing to maintain. They should be thanking Apple for showing them how to make an online store that works.
I also hope you understand that Apple probably couldn't care less about losing a provider of 40% of their video sales. Very few iPod customers buy songs on iTunes, and even less purchase video. Apple's money is made on the hardware, not the online store, and this will have little to no impact on Apple - in fact, it will probably impact NBC far more than Apple.
Nice Zune logo, btw. You do realize that Microsoft's agreement to pay Universal royalties for each iPod sold is further powering the greed and stupidity of some content providers? That alone should be enough of a reason to avoid that Toshiba-made Zune-branded clearance item. | |
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| | said by Brazbit:Good for NBC. Apple should not be the one to set the price for what NBC's content is worth, that should be between NBC and the customer. If NBC had increased the price and not enough users were willing to pay the price would have either come back down or NBC would have decided iTunes was not worth the investment and left anyway. If the market is not worth their time at $1.99 an episode then they did the right thing by leaving. Due to Apple's inflexibility they now have lost the provider of 40% of their video sales. A typical television season is about 24 episodes. At $1.99 an episode, that equals $47.76 for a season. A DVD set is about the same price (some more, some less.)
All NBC has done has done is make sure DVDs get sold and very very few will buy episodes online. | |
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