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Originally Posted by leebase
Apple is providing a very friendly way for it's customers to acquire content. There's nothing easier than having an iOS device and one click buying via the app store or iTunes.
Companies that want to put free apps in Apple's store -- then sell the very same items Apple sells, but desiring not to pay Apple -- those are the companies who are being inconvenienced.
There's a LOT more inconvenience someone has to go through to buy non-Amazon kindle books to side load on a kindle.
The rest is just business negotiation between Amazon and those who want to be partners. All of us who shop at a mall deal with stores that have a lot more restrictions and higher overhead than those who shop at stores that build their own separate locations. The mall ads value, and charges stores more accordingly. That's why you never see a WalMart located in a mall. There's not enough room to pay the mall it's overhead and still charge the ultralow prices of Walmart.
But, regardless of whether we'll agree on which policies of Apple's are good or bad. It is clearly true that Apple has garnered a vast amount of support and content for it's platform and thus it's customers - more than anyone else has.
Lee
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Yes, yes. I'm just saying this appears to portend a shift towards increased 'inconvenience' for some users (including myself). And that is regrettable, whatever the business justification (which Apple chooses not to delineate).
If the new policy also results in more reading apps leaving the App Store (Bluefire or txtr in particular, since these are the only iOS apps that license Adobe RMSDK and enable reading of purchased Adobe DRM ebooks on iOS), it will be
very regrettable. We need continued competition and options and innovation on all platforms.