'I’m hearing that the artists aren’t happy, the publishers aren’t happy. Someone other than Apple needs to be happy for this industry to grow,' said Amit Shafrir, president of AOL’s premium services arm.As someone at iPodlounge.com said, "Um… what about the customers, Amit… they seem to be happy."
'For the time being we all must work with Apple and make the most of iTunes,' said Eric Nicoli, chairman of EMI Group PLC, the world’s No. 3 record company. 'Single pricing is almost unique to the music industry,' Nicoli added. 'If you look at any other consumer category—including things like iPods—they sell at different prices.'Uh, so you seem to be saying that an iPod shuffle should be the same price as the iPod nano or iPod? That all BMW models should be the same price? Dude, where did you get your MBA?
Basically, the music industry folks are just plain greedy. Apple has been turning in some nice sales numbers with the iTunes Music Store. Apple buys the songs at a certain price and are free to price it to customers as it see fit.
