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Originally Posted by elcreative
You do have choices still... you can submit your app to Apple for approval and it will appear if it works properly and doesn't infringe their T&Cs... you can put it out for Android and other platforms... you can set up your own platform (OK bit unlikely)... or we can dictate to Apple (and all those who have purchased their equipment) that they must allow everyone to be allowed to put whatever they like on the iPad...
If you develop an App for the iPad then don't you already know the way things work, by the nature of making an iPad App you are agreeing to the T&Cs... if you don't like them then don't produce an App for the iPad... doesn't matter if it would benefit your business, Apple aren't actually in the business of helping other peoples' businesses, they're selling iPads and facilitating customers acquiring content for it that they can expect to work...
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Well, once you have achieved dominance in a certain market segment the sort of business practice we are seeing from Apple is frowned upon and may even be considered as being illegal, as it is clearly designed to stifle competition. Apple itself was always happy to get a free ride out of other peoples' achievements, after all. I would have liked to hear the howls of outrage out of the Apple camp if Microsoft had declared that running iTunes on Windows machines didn't meet their business model unless they got 30% out of the sales in the past. It is obviously quite different when Apple is employing such rapacious tactics, though.
(As a side note it is quite remarkable that "evil" Gates is spending billions of Dollars on helping people in the Third World while Jobs seems to be happy to pile up ever more money.)
As to Amazon being comparable I wasn't aware that they were preventing books from other sources from being loaded on Kindles.