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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
If Apple actually does this, the only books you will be able to get on an iPad will be iBooks, customers for whom using the iPad as an ereader was important will migrate elsewhere (although I'm not sure how many people that is), people with e-readers who were interested in buying iPads will look elsewhere (not sure how many people that is, either, although it includes me). But the people hurt worse will be those who already bought the iPad with the intent of using the Kindle or Nook apps on it.
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While it is debatable how many people bought an ipad for a single app, the number will be much greater when you add up how many bought one due to a particular app and each company that goes elsewhere will make subsequent ipad purchases less likely, oddly enough just as everyone else is finally about to launch rival products that outperform the ipad.