When Rousseau wrote his social theory, concepts of liberty and freedom were not new ideas. Hints of social contract reasoning are found in earlier works, most notably in Book 2 of Plato's dialog The Republic, as well as, in Socrates.
The total spending per iTunes account is $43 per year across all media, says Dediu. At 575 million iTunes accounts, that works out to $24.7 billion of consumer spending at iTunes per year. The average iTunes account's annual spending on software has followed music's trend, falling to $9 from $42 in 2008. However, average annual spending on apps has gone in the opposite direction, rising to $16 this year from $7 in 2008.
Unlike with TV shows and music videos, thereâs no set price for movies. Apple has announced that new films are $12.99 if you pre-order them before theyâre releasedâa Coming Soon page at the iTunes Store lists all the movies you can pre-order.New movies also cost $12.99 if you them during first week after their release; afterward, the price rises to $14.99.ut just as Apple sold more than one million songs in the first week of the iTunes Music Store, and has sold more than 1.5 billion in the past three-and-a-half years, Disney CEO Robert Iger says his company has sold 125,000 movies on the iTunes Store in the first week.