From: /m 

On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:23:02 -0400, Mike N.  wrote:

>On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 11:02:45 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"

>wrote:
>
>>Actually I would think some in the music industry would back Microsoft as
>>they've been trying to break the Apple 99 cent download price for quite some
>>time.
>
>   I don't quite follow - do you mean that they were trying to get Apple to
>drop the price below 99 cents, and they thing competition from Microsoft
>will cause that to happen?

The music industry wants to break Apple's single $0.99 per song pricing, in
favor of a tiered pricing model where the current hits are more expensive.

This is a case where Microsoft's competition may actually raise prices.

 /m

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