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Originally Posted by holymadness
You are right that anything could happen, but that doesn't make it likely.
Apple has an interest in making its ecosystem as attractive as possible, even if that means opening itself up to competing services. Its rivals have an enormous interest in making sure their products and services are available on iOS, so long as Apple continues to create the most successful phones and tablets on the market and its users continue to spend more money than the average consumer.
I don't see either of those reasons changing very soon.
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How quickly people forget:
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-kindle-2011-2
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Apple spokesperson Trudy Miller tells us, "We are now requiring that if an app offers customers the ability to purchase books outside of the app, that the same option is also available to customers from within the app with in-app purchase."
How is this going to nuke the Kindle app? Because Apple takes a 30% cut of every in-app sale. There's no way Amazon is going to pay Apple a 30% tax on every Kindle eBook sold on an iOS device. Therefore, Amazon could just abandon Apple's store instead of paying up.
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