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Steve Jobs' dogmatic "one price fits all" for music sold at the iTunes store faces an unlikely challenge -- from Apple itself. Jobs has held firm to his 99-cents-per-song rate with one brief exception despite pressure from the major labels to charge different prices for music depending on demand and other factors. But Apple's own App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch already allows artists and labels do an end-run around those pricing restrictions and experiment with alternate pricing models and even ad-supported music. Apple receives 30 percent or so of [...]