AllThingsD » L. Gordon Crovitz http://allthingsd.com Sun, 27 May 2012 01:54:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 Justice Department Bites Apple http://allthingsd.com/20120423/justice-department-bites-apple/ http://allthingsd.com/20120423/justice-department-bites-apple/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:01:00 +0000 L. Gordon Crovitz http://allthingsd.com/?p=198773 “I don’t think you understand. We can’t treat newspapers or magazines any differently than we treat FarmVille.”

With those words, senior Apple executive Eddy Cue stuck to his take-it-or-leave-it business model of a 30 percent revenue share payable for transactions through the iTunes service. Despite my arguments to Mr. Cue in Apple’s Cupertino, Calif., offices last year on behalf of news publishers seeking different terms, to him there was no difference between a newspaper and an online game.

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