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Originally Posted by tomsem
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).
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There is more convenience for purchasing content on an Apple device than any other -- period. Bar none. No device ecosystem is chocked full of as much content that can be purchased more easily.
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Originally Posted by tomsem
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.
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Bluefire, textr et al. are part of the pantheon of reading app choices for iOS customers. What reading app choices to kindle owners have? How about Android? There is yet to be MORE choices on Android than iOS.
Bluefire et. al. will simply have to make their money selling their APP or they will have to build up their own web customer base. As Amazon and Barnes and Noble have done.
No reason Bluefire can't still be used for reading library books that use Adobe DRM. Or read Adobe DRM books you've bought from some place else.
There is plenty of competition in the market. You have kindles and nooks and kobos and Sony's and 50 different no-name eInk readers. You have dozens upon dozens of Android based tablets including the excellent Nook Color. Not to mention all the hundreds of millions of smart phones.
All this competition, and no one yet comes even close to having as many choices for reading and buying content as Apple's iOS. As an iOS owner you have it good even if there are some rules of Apple's that you don't like.
You can trust Apple to keep it's place at the top of the heap in content delivery to you, it's customer.
Lee