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Originally Posted by stonetools
First of all neither Kobo or any of the other booksellers have the moral high ground on this. You can ONLY buy from the Kobo Bookstore on the Kobo reader in the ordinary course. You can ONLY buy from Google Books on the Ireader. Faced with such exclusivity, Apple's limitations are mild.
Did you really buy your Ipad with the expectations that your methods of accessing the non-Apple book stores would remain EXACTLY the same? Thought not.
Apple's change in policy has little to do with e-bookstores and a LOT to do with its new features (Newsstand, Icloud, video streaming services) that it plans to introduce in Ios5 come the fall . As such , Apple would not be "backing down" on this as this policy change is part of a much bigger initiative by Apple.
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I don't think comparing a kobo reader or kindle etc to a iPad is a fair comparison. They are ebook readers and it is all they are, they do not run apps. A better comparison would be comparing a kobo to a iPod, both dedicated devices that do one thing and neither run third party apps. A iPad is more in line with a Laptop or netbook, both run third party apps, how far do you think microsoft would get if it demanded 30% of all in app purchases, 30% of all music bought from within iTunes running on windows ? everyone would be screaming and the lawyers would be lining up. Yet it's exactly what apple has done.
EDIT: I was referring to like an iPod nano etc..