Why is iTunes pricing so much more than Amazon

@michael. The point is not that anyone pushing me , or anyone else to use iTunes. In your attempt to dismiss the facts in regard to ITunes pricing you are avoiding, or at least missing the point. My original point was that I want to buy more movies from iTunes. Apple's sometimes ridiculously higher prices are keeping me from doing that on a regular basis. Apple is not the end all to everything. For as much as I love their products , their pricing sometimes just doesn't make sense. That is a fact

The point is that the iTunes Store is wayy too expensive and it dimishes the enjoyment of an iPad. Thats the bottom line. Now maybe it is the content providers that are to blame for the high prices but why is it that you can get the same content at other places cheaper? That should be an issue for Apple to figure out because they sell a device and want people to use that device to consume media content. Hopefully from their iTunes Store. The problem now is that the high prices will move people away from Apple devices more and more. Thats what high prices do. They cause people to not only look elsewhere but eventually want to find altogether different solutions for their hardware and software needs.

Come to think about it, i dont think that Steve Jobs would have wanted to see the prices to be so high and would have negoitiated better deals. The success of the iPhone and the App store initially was because the apps were so cheap to buy. Now we see that the iTunes store has the complete opposite appeal of the App store. Apple needs to do something about that. i cant get any movies on my iPad because i feel like im getting ripped off from the iTunes Store. Nobody wants to feel ripped off!

trajan1 wrote:

The point is that the iTunes Store is wayy too expensive

Except it isn't.

Come to think about it, i dont think that Steve Jobs would have wanted to see the prices to be so high and would have negoitiated better deals.

He negotiated the current deals.

@Chris CA

You have your opinion of the pricing and so do others. What is the point to your post? If you don't admit that some things are out of line in price compared to a blu ray or Amazon; you would be either misinformed, or lying to defend Apple's pricing scheme. Either way some people don't agree with you. I realize that Amazon prices products and hardware at a loss to sell more... but blu Ray movies seem to be pretty consistent.

Also yes Jobs negotiated the current deals in 2006? After nearly eight years and with other players now in the game it is certainly time for the pricing model to at least be looked at.

This is a discussion why are you and some others so hard up to defend everything that Apple does? It makes me almost laugh. I love, and use the products every day, but I don't look at Apple as infallible. Which seems to be the thought process of some folks here.

Just install spotify and install free music.... for movies i dont know