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by devindotcom 4782 days ago
Yeah, this was the moment for me too. It's like he's saying "Who do you think you're talking to? You think we don't know what you people do?"
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Agreed. It demonstrated that Jobs probably understood the numbers approximately as well as those he was negotiating with. It not so subtly alluded to the fact that HC was attempting to seize a bigger slice of the digital pie, without being confrontational.

"Gee, you could make the same amount of money by giving the authors, um, more."