Look, cat, this has been discussed in the press for the last several months! I am not making this up, no matter how much you want to claim that I am! The press has reported the refusal of the labels to sign with Google and Amazon. This is a fact! Both have offered money incentives to the Labels and publishers to sign and they have refused. Insiders have cited a lack of trust. Apple HAS succeeded in getting the labels to sign in exchange for a reported $150 million. Perhaps they will now sign with the others, perhaps not, now that Apple has blazed the trail, once again. You are the one ignoring the news that has been reported. . . But as of now, neither Google nor Amazon has contracts that allow them to do what Apple will be doing, no matter how much you wish they did.
You’re right, sorry. There is more about it in this morning’s WSJ.