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Originally Posted by WillysJeepMan
There's a difference between a totally fictitious number and an educated guess. I think that Tobias Buckell has sufficiently made the case that 50% is a reasonable number... not necessarily accurate, but a reasonable guess.
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I disagree completely. As I said, 50% isn't remotely close to what Amazon has said. if you're going to take someone's guesstimate over actual company statements, then I really don't know what to say.
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Secrecy with these type of numbers always means one thing... they're not as good as they hoped.
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That's simply not true. There are competitive reasons for not releasing exact sales numbers, and not just because they aren't good enough.
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And if that's the case, then I expect Amazon to yank the kindle app from the app store rather than give Apple a cut of kindle book sales. Because after all, with the growing number of non-iOS devices being sold this year, they can easily write off the small percentage of sales generated by iOS devices.
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That might happen, but only if Apple's machinations make the market unprofitable for Amazon.