Shame On Itunes/Apple

[WilliaminBKK]

This is just a rant but I am pissy...... ITunes/Apple raised prices for Whitney's songs overnight- I wanted one hit and it was $1.29 yesterday today it is $1.99, her album was $7.99 and today it is $12.99 - I use a CDN account.

Shame on them for raising the prices overnight-supply and demand ? If it was water during the flood they would be investigated and fined.

Rant over

[jybkk]

I'm not really a fan of Apple, but in that case I'm not sure the blame should be put on them. The recording company are probably the ones setting the price.

[dave111223]

LOL I love it; comparing a downloaded song by Whitney Houston, to drinking water during a natural disaster :lol;

[2008bangkok]

I noticed myself as soon as you loaded iTunes store was a big Whitney advertisement..no shame in business hey

[negreanu]

Who says it was apple. More than likely her record company / management instructed a price rise which iTunes implemented.

[cdnvic]

Posts suggesting the OP download it with bittorrent removed.

[jamesbrock]

Lol! Another rant at Apple without they ranter actually considering that it might not actually be their fault! Hilarious stuff!

[bubba]

Apple does not set the price for songs or albums. The artist's record company sets the price. Apple takes a 35% cut of the iTunes sale.

Shame on Whitney Houston's record company.

[nikster]

Apple does not set the price for songs or albums. The artist's record company sets the price. Apple takes a 35% cut of the iTunes sale.

Shame on Whitney Houston's record company.

FWIW Apple does not take a 35% cut on music, it's much smaller, they make pennies on each sale. They take 30% of sales in the app store but that's an entirely different thing.

[nikster]

Posts suggesting the OP download it with.......

Doesn't mentioning that kind of defeat the objective of removing such posts ?

Yeah by all means, don't use a TORRENT to download it, it's highly illegal. Even searching for the artist's torrent on Google should be illegal IMO

[nikster]

http://9to5mac.com/2012/02/13/sony-music-jacks-price-of-whitney-houston-music-immediately-following-her-death/

Sony music is to blame. Hard to believe, yet true. They seem to be hell-bound to prove that they're the bad guys, only out to grab an extra dime upon hearing about the tragic death of one of their biggest artists...

The good news is the change has since been reversed....

[chiliwasabi]

Houston, we have a problem.

[bubba]

Apple does not set the price for songs or albums. The artist's record company sets the price. Apple takes a 35% cut of the iTunes sale.

Shame on Whitney Houston's record company.

FWIW Apple does not take a 35% cut on music, it's much smaller, they make pennies on each sale. They take 30% of sales in the app store but that's an entirely different thing.

I've seen 30 or 35% quoted as Apple's take, such as here:

http://www.thevlyhouse.com/2011/01/the-itunes-business-model-and-its-widespread-effects/

Googling confirms that, but I could be wrong of course.

Just saw this story:

Sony Music briefly inflated the price of a Whitney Houston album -- The Ultimate Collection -- only hours after the singer's death on Saturday, a Guardian report notes. The company is said to have initially raised the album's wholesale price at about 4AM on Sunday, causing its price to automatically jump at places like the iTunes Store. At the UK iTunes Store, the cost rose from £5 to £8; the album is actually an old one, a best-of compilation dating back to 1997.

Bad Sony.

http://www.ipodnn.com/articles/12/02/13/jacked.wholesale.price.causes.spike.on.itunes/

[2008bangkok]

Well it's apple store asp they take the blame, you eat some dodgy eggs from tesco you blame tesco not the farmer

[TheLaughingMan]

Itunes is a market where sellers bring their wares, so if a seller raises their price it's the markets fault?

[bobl]

Itunes is a market where sellers bring their wares, so if a seller raises their price it's the markets fault?

NONE of the other vendors (e.g. Amazon etc) increased their prices. Only iTunes.

If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck...

[cdnvic]

Sony Apologizes for Whitney Houston Price Hike in U.K.

Hits collections went up by as much as 60 percent on iTunes

by: Rolling Stone

Whitney Houston performs at the American Music Awards.

Kevin Winter/AMA2009/Getty Images for DCP

Sony has apologized for bumping up the price of two Whitney Houston records in the United Kingdom immediately following the singer's death on Saturday. "Whitney Houston product was mistakenly mispriced on the U.K. iTunes store on Sunday," said a statement issued by Sony. "When discovered, the mistake was immediately corrected. We apologize for any offense caused."

Full story: http://www.rollingst...in-u-k-20120215

Will the OP be apologizing to Apple?

[jamesbrock]

Sony Apologizes for Whitney Houston Price Hike in U.K.

Hits collections went up by as much as 60 percent on iTunes

by: Rolling Stone

Whitney Houston performs at the American Music Awards.

Kevin Winter/AMA2009/Getty Images for DCP

Sony has apologized for bumping up the price of two Whitney Houston records in the United Kingdom immediately following the singer's death on Saturday. "Whitney Houston product was mistakenly mispriced on the U.K. iTunes store on Sunday," said a statement issued by Sony. "When discovered, the mistake was immediately corrected. We apologize for any offense caused."

Full story: http://www.rollingst...in-u-k-20120215

Will the OP be apologizing to Apple?

And everyone else who's on the anti-Apple bandwagon?

[jamesbrock]

Itunes is a market where sellers bring their wares, so if a seller raises their price it's the markets fault?

NONE of the other vendors (e.g. Amazon etc) increased their prices. Only iTunes.

If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck...

You said it...