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Originally Posted by leebase
I don't even like, personally, every one of Apple's policies. But I like that Apple has been very successful in getting support for the iPad. And Apple's content providers are very happy that Apple has attracted customers like me who are willing to actually pay for some of our content.
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They were successful in attracting support from companies like Amazon that has greatly enhanced the overall attractiveness of the ipad, those companies are not going to hang around and continue to make the ipad look good if they make no money and for anyone that isn't a mindless isheep willing to accept only the likes itunes or ibooks to provide them with content that is a bad thing.
If apple wanted to demand that there was a minimum charge for service-related apps or wanted to charge those companies money for hosting a free app based on the amount of times people actually downloaded it then that would be more than fair since beyond supplying the hardware for sale (and they have obviously got their cut there) that is all they are actually doing for a lot of them and in any case that is also apple's choice due to them blocking other options for installing apps.