I want to believe
Renting is cheaper.
Please, please tell me this is true. Because, look, I invest in the stock market. I am working on a RETIREMENT PLAN. And honestly, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to afford a 500k condo. If I can’t actually create a working retirement plan while living where the best work in my industry resides, then… what the hell is everyone else doing here? Am I extremely underpaid? (probably) I’m not going to get a jumbo-loan. I’m not going to get a subprime loan. I’d rather be dirt poor than in bad debt and that is why I rent. I want to believe.
Apple wants to believe, too.
But NBC is too impatient in their desire to shakedown consumers. iTunes is already precariously, slowly treading into the black swamp wasteland; The bowels of internet music trading, where consumers are unmanageable savages. They’re converting them one after another.
You give us a few dollars per song, and you get to go to heaven when you die.
An NBC spokesperson was quoted as saying in a New York Times article: “[The iTunes Store] is designed to drive sales of Apple devices at the expense of those who create the content that make these devices worth buying.” What they don’t get is that there’s already tons of content out there. If users aren’t getting it legally, they’re still getting it! And that’s the black swamp wasteland apple is treading into, converting savages.