[mattl]

Nope. It was always the deal.

I have artist sales records predating the iPhone.

Edit: Also worth remembering that iTunes is/was/is the iTunes Music Store (itms) and that Apple sold apps via it for the click wheel iPod under the same percentages.

[Steko]

It’s pretty easy to verify that apple paid the credit card feeds from their cut, brief googling reveals many articles like this one:

https://nypost.com/2004/05/07/apple-tunes-up-price-of-hits-m...