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It’s all over now, my little battle with iTunes, and I’m not even sure who won. Though considering that the iTunes Store, App Store and iBookstore took in $1.4 billion in the three months ending in June, I have a sneaking suspicion.
It started when I began fuming recently at online recommendations, those mathematically derived suggestions that use our buying histories and other people’s to try to predict what we might like.
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But then the recommendations turned ugly.
The Cowsills.
The Cowsills? Are you kidding?
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However, in my Cowsills-induced horror, or maybe it was the pinot, I had forgotten the original game. I was supposed to be playing iTunes, but iTunes was playing me. I had spent $33.69 in a single night just to persuade an online store that I am not a Cowsills person.
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