Comment Re:Too big a change too soon (Score 1) 349
Are you seriously suggesting that most consumers shouldn't factor the possibility of fire/theft/etc. into their backup solution?
Are you seriously suggesting that most consumers shouldn't factor the possibility of fire/theft/etc. into their backup solution?
That doesn't sound like Autotune to me. It sounds like a vocoder.
I'm not sure any company would want to invest the money in that just to have to deal with Apple's spotty app store approval process. All that money could go down the drain with the waive of a finger in Cupertino.
The full article is at http://www.simpletechnology.net/is-apple-making-bSo what happened to the 20 songs we gifted? iTunes had a twenty-five percent failure rate: fifteen of the gifted songs arrived while five never made it. However, Apple took the full price each of the 20 songs without alerting us about the failed deliveries: no refund, no second try, nothing....
This little experiment begs the question, how much money is Apple making on undelivered music? Let's say that only two percent of the one billion songs downloaded last year were "gifted" songs, that would add up to two million songs. Now, that's hardly a drop in Apple's bucket of revenue, but if a twenty-five percent failure rate is the norm, then 500,000 songs go undelivered while Apple makes around $495,000 for failing to deliver songs.
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