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Originally Posted by WillysJeepMan
But if we accept Amazon's claim at face value, then the number of kindle books downloaded to iOS devices is less than 20%... perhaps significantly less.
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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The odds are that ios devices probably count for the vast majority of the 20% that are sold for kindle apps so the sales are not negligble for Amazon, but one solution for them would be to simply stop updating the current app that has already been approved by Apple and it would just mean that the ios version of the app would start to lag behind the playbook, android, etc. versions that didn't have this restriction preventing updates.
Net result, no more revenue for Apple from books and their tablet becomes less appealing than others.