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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Nothing in this mess has been clearly stated by Apple.
Until there is an authoritative statement (which normally means from Job's himself), everything is just guesswork at this stage.
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Beaten to death:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...56&postcount=1
The New York Time Quoted Apple:
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"[Apple] has told some applications developers, including Sony, that they can no longer sell content, like e-books, within their apps, or let customers have access to purchases they have made outside the App Store [emphasis added].
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Nobody has stepped forth to deny this.
It is *exactly* that quote that has Pandora's IPO at risk, Last.fm grumbling, and Euro-publishers in a tizzy.
And Jobs *did* clarify the policy: he said it doesn't apply to software as a service (browsing, aggregation, analysis). It thus applies to everything else.
And everything else includes content, both downloaded and streamed.
That's clear enough to me.
Everybody ellse can believe whatever they choose to believe.
Toddles!