Ohnoes! The sky is falling down!
Let's just remind ourselves that Apple is primarily a hardware company, and Apps from Amazon, Kobo, B&N where available etc.. etc.. all help drive hardware sales, so I don't believe for a second that Apple would cut them off - why would they?? Oh wait, I forgot; they're greedy. And evil, right? And closed, let's not forget closed...
From the TechCrunch article linked to earlier:-
Quote:
"There seems to be this desire to paint Apple’s relatively closed system as “evil” in some way. But the reality, of course, is that it’s not evil. If anything, it has just proven to be good business. In fact, one of the most successful business models ever.
Sony’s statement sounds as if that they were looking forward to taking advantage of the success of the iPad to bolster their own struggling e-book products. But it’s not like they can sell their books on the Kindle either. Instead, the Kindle exists so Amazon can move their own products. And no one is calling Amazon “evil” because of it.
The larger public simply doesn’t care about this whole open versus closed debate. And it doesn’t really seem like developers actually making the apps do either. But the press certainly seems to for some reason. We get so damn angry about things like this — when we read them on our iPads."
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Never thought I'd see TechCrunch as the 'voice of reason' but there you go...