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Originally Posted by Crowl
Aren't the apps, media, books etc. all hosted by apple, while it is excessive to equate that with meriting 30% of each transaction it isn't entirely fair to declare that they provide nothing.
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Apple does not host any Amazon books. Amazon hosts them. iOS is only ONE of the literally dozens of platforms through which you can buy content from Amazon. So yes, I think it is more than fair to declare that Apple provides nothing for the claimed money. At least provides not one bit more than Microsoft, Ubuntu, Red Hat, RIM and any other platform providers through which you can buy Amazon content. There is simply no value added to the fact that you buy content on iOS comparing it to buying content from your Windows PC.
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Given their complaints about free apps being there entirely to supply content that they don't make any money from, the logical way to alter things would be for them to make people like Amazon charge for the ios Kindle app and get their cut from the app sales and not the content sales which have almost nothing to do with them, but do serve as a selling point for the particular platform.
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No one cares about their free apps. Stop supplying them for free if it is not worth it. But grabbing money from publishers and content providers in exchange for nothing is robbery.