Apple pressuring music publishers over Amazon Daily Deal

Glad to see you read MacRumors too Dave. I see you took the time to change one word in their headline from yesterday, but when I loaded up TUAW this afternoon, I thought I was looking at a cached version of a webpage. Then I realized I'd read this story on MacRumors YESTERDAY, as you and AppleInsider must have too.

Maybe you should all just link back to the Billboard article that's the actual source of this story instead of just link-link-linking to each other.

Does anybody ever wonder, "hey, is this good for the artists?"

I find this to be much more scuzzy of Apple than the whole patent lawsuit against HTC. Sometimes I have to take a step back from my beautifully functional Apple hardware and remember that they are still a gargantuan corporate machine.

do we finally have a successor to Microsoft, the old industry bully?

To be honest most of the music Amazon promotes like this is manufactured garbage anyway. It probably gives the record companies an opportunity to bump up sales, which therefore gives them an unfair way of manipulating the charts and extra air play for promoting their latest artist. Lets face it music executives don't care about you or I they're just in it for the money. Which ever way this goes you can guarantee it wont be in the favour of consumers.

I love when apple feels the need to trump the competition.

But only when they do it thru a superior product. This is just lazy.

I'm sorry but sometimes it's just that the publishers are acting like the music industry, apple had to push them to go with the 99 cents per song, now we are doing the same with publishers.

Sometimes Apple acts like a communist country.

Anti-competitive practices.