Amazon is also going to control pricing, with developers allowed to set a "list price" that Amazon will riff on, adjusting the price based on magical algorithms.

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Similarly, Google quietly doubled the storage space for the Nexus 7 without adjusting the price.

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Some former presidents make a killing on speeches and some financiers just tell the world what they like or hate and the world obliges by adjusting the price accordingly.

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