Thread: NYT: Apple Moves to Tighten Control of App Store
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Old 02-15-2011, 01:21 PM   #300
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Originally Posted by Xoanon View Post
I don't own any Apple products so I'm not up to speed on how they work, but can't Amazon et al just remove all web links to purchasing ebooks from within their apps?

Is there anything stopping people from just opening up a browser to visit the retailers websites independently of Apple in order to purchase and download their books?
By my reading, there's nothing to stop them buying off the retailers' websites, but if that is possible then that retailer cannot supply an app which has no method for purchases through Apple (hence my comment above about having to have a third party distributor for a Kindle Read Only app).

So I don't think Amazon can simply remove all web links for purchasing from the current app.

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