Proprietary technology, company-owned brick and mortar stores, and fixed pricing are exactly what the market's looking for A year ago, Apple CEO Steve Jobs cut Pixar's ties with Disney, opting to handle its own marketing and distribution. With that move, the animation shop that made a name for itself with a hopping lamp became its own studio, in control of everything from the rendered frame, to the prints shipped to theatres, to the timing and pricing of its DVDs. Steve Jobs, speaking for Pixar, told Disney, "Thanks, Disney, Pixar will take it from here." That's the same Steve Jobs who...