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Originally Posted by scottjl
i really wish people would stop saying apple used "another" drm system. apple used fairplay. the same drm system they've used for years on their MP3 files and they use it today on apps. there was absolutely no reason for apple to use a 3rd party's DRM system and pay out royalties to another company when they have a perfectly usable DRM system already in house. apple is a business, they made a perfectly rational business decision.
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In the context of ebooks it is another drm system regardless of whether they had previously used it for music and if they weren't having such a childish strop with adobe then I am sure some kind of cross-licensing deal could have been worked out that would have made the ipad more appealing to people with a large purchased epub collection helping both apple and consumers.
As far as being a rational business decision, they seem to have decided to help amazon dominate the ebook market and given that amazon also sell other content, maybe it won't seem such a good idea further down the line.