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Amazon needs to release their own color Android Slate device the day after the iPad 2 announcement with the added kicker that Apple kicked the K4iOS to the curb unless Apple is paid it's tithe.
FYI, I predicted earlier that this 30% cut thing was more than about books. Last night I received my email that now with my Amazon Prime membership there are free video streaming content from Amazon. I predicted Apple was and still is actively looking to be compensated if the consumer decided to tell the iTunes store to go procreate with itself in favor of other solutions. And I still contend the true reason there is no Flash for iOS has zero to do with stability or resources it's about content control and Apple is treating the iOS devices like the box from your cable company. If you want to use it for anything remotely useful then Apple demands payment via forced compliance.
I suspect the next assault will be on the jail-breaking developers out there. Apple has completed their journey to the Darkside with this total assault on the consumer. And has been pointed out multiple times in this thread, these are the same behaviors which almost killed Apple off way back when even installing a non-Apple approved program voided the warranty.
It's all just enough for me...seriously between the war on ebooks by the publishers themselves and Apple's war on, well, the globe, I really don't care anymore. If a Windows based slate comes out and works properly I'll buy one otherwise I am totally done with all of it.
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