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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Beaten to death:
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. |
On my iPhone, I can currently read PDFs in Goodreader that I have purchased outside the App Store. I can listen to MP3s in the iPod app that I have purchased outside the App Store. I can open Excel spreadsheets (though I've never actually bought one) from my email. Dropbox allows access to lots of documents.
Are there any indications that this will change? If not, don't ePubs fall into the same category?
I am happy enough to be able to open Kobo and Kindle books on my iPhone, having purchased them on my computer. Much as having the ability to buy a book ANYWHERE, ANY TIME was really exciting before I got an eReader - in reality I have a backlog of books so I'll actually never run out of reading material. Library books require Overdrive though - but I'm not actually purchasing them ...