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Originally Posted by brundles
but I'm not convinced they have done anything particularly evil in this instance.
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The price drop isn't the most heinous example, but they are plenty more, across all Apple products.
Picking one at random, the iPhone doesn't allow custom ringtones. Virtually every phone over at least the last 5 years have had the ability to either record them via the mic, import them, or compose them. If you want a ringtone for your iPhone, you have to buy it from iTunes, even if you have already bought the song for your iPod. So despite buying the song in full, you need to buy another 15 seconds of the same song. And its not about protecting artists, or the like. Its about squatting over the customer and fleecing them because they can.