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To: sylvester80 who wrote (92869)	2/28/2010 12:37:26 PM
From: rnsmth	1 Recommendation Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 213181

<Unless you can get every news source to the paid for stories model (meaning you have no choice in order to read news), this will fail miserably IMO> I have noticed that the Wall Street Times and the Financial Times are suffering terribly. I think there are going to be a lot of things tried. We are on the cusp of a new paradigm in computing, and new paradigms in how we get stuff and pay for it. There was a proposal long, long ago - someone here may remember it, by an early net pioneer suggesting a model of micropayments. As I recall it, if you clicked on certain content, you'd pay a very small amount of money to access it - pennies. A mechanism would be created to see that the aggregation of all those pennies would arrive to their rightful owner. Maybe we'll move toward that. I think whichever platform comes up with the best way to connect content owners with folks who want access to that content - for a reasonable price - will do very well. I think that many content providers are really going to like the iTunes store and in-app content sales. I think many consumers are going to like that also. Not everyone, of course, but enough to generate some serious money. Apps alone were a 4 billion dollar business last year - growing at a good rate. Imagine the potential for in-app content purchase dollar amount. As a shareholder, I like where Apple is in this mix. We have the biggest, baddest e-commerce site for digital content and Apps - not to mention the Apple Store and the Apple Retail stores and the gross margins, and the best brand name in electronics. Oh, I forgot to mention the rapidly growing Macintosh sales and everything that Apple sells Yeah, I like where Apple is in the mix.