The one thing apple loves more than planned obsolescence is user lock-in. If the bitmongers get to throttle everybody who doesn’t pay, and apple pays, then everybody with an idevice will have a big incentive to stay inside apple’s ecosystem. Why buy slow, choppy amazon or google video on your ipad when you can just buy fast, smooth video from itunes?
Apple will happily pay the tolls to keep users buying from apple and only apple…
