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Originally Posted by stonetools
Er, I'm sorry Apple is doing... nothing? Apple built the devices on which the ebooks are read. Apple marketed these devices-so successfully that they have sold 160M of these devices, creating a huge market for ebooks. These apps that read and more importantly, sell these books are distributed through the Apple's App Store and hosted and updated by the App Store. All that is....nothing? I'm going to be blunt-I just don't think you understand how business works.
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Before you go on about understanding how business works, you should *show how booksellers can make a profit with Apple.*
That is *fundamental* to business. It is also pretty much the main point people are making, and the point you have not addressed.
It's not about Apple or anyone else "deserving" anything. It's about profit, pure and simple.
And I don't think that conflating iPhone, iPod touches, and iPads is very helpful; this is really about the iPad. I didn't buy my iPhone to read books on; and while it is kind of convenient on occasion, I will probably still buy a new iPhone even without Kindle, since I didn't buy my phone to read books on.
But I've decided against buying an iPad 2, since one of the reasons I would like one would be to read books on when I don't have my Kindle.
But this is obviously much worse for people who already bought an iPad and use it to read Amazon or B&N's books, since they will have suddenly lost an important feature.
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Now there are lots of businesses that thrive without Apple's help-like, for example, the business of growing turnips. That's completely irrelevant to the the issue of whether Apple should get a cut of sales made on IOS devices for use on IOS devices I can gaurantee Amazon and B&N are certainly negotiating hard to stay on the IOS platform and would be willing to pay a cut. Hell, GOOGLE is looking for cut (10%) of products sold on the Android platform.
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Android's system is optional. Android doesn't require you to implement in app purchasing. Android's system only applies to subscriptions.