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I don't give a crap about DRM one way or another. What should matter to everyone is actually interoperability. That is the true issue with DRM. I have zero issue with publishers wanting to protect, however misguided it might be, their product and revenue. Yes, I get it, DRM really is pointless, fine I don't flipping care. But it does matter that DRM can and is currently used in several cases to lock people into a platform for reading.
One thing that made the iPad, Touch and even iPhone very attractive to us readers is the ability to read everything on one device or on all the devices a person wants to use daily. But if that is taken out of play on the iOS platform then it's just not of interest to many readers who used that very logic to buy into the platform.
Now comes Apple into the mix looking very much like they are considering a power play to use the iOS platform to steal customers from other companies using what amounts to a bait-n-switch. And they seem to be attempting to use the claim the clause was always there even if they did approve apps and did not enforce that particular clause (the in-app thing) so it was at Apple's pleasure the other suddenly non-complying apps are likely to be considered non-compliant and either must pay or be gone. But now Apple is looking to do what Apple does and that is lock their customers into ONLY their platform for content with yet another platform locked DRM scheme.
I do not see how anyone can defend Apple in the whole cash grab while claiming other platforms are locking them out in the face of Apple's own DRM that can ONLY be read in iBooks.
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