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Originally Posted by murraypaul
The other point to make is that all of the ebook stores have decided to agree to Apple's policies and remain on the app store, so it seems that they see value in proving their apps to iOS users, even if selling to them is now a more convoluted process.
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Of course there is value to having their reader apps in the store, since that is the only way to get them on an idevice.
What doesn't have value is Apple’s confiscatory practice of demanding 30% of all in-app sales. So what Kobo and others are doing is moving their apps off of the device and utilizing the power of HTML 5 to do the processing in Safari (or any other browser) instead.
This is a serious blow to Apple’s walled garden since most other apps that Apple would like to block can be handled similarly. In effect, Kobo has just blown a hole in the garden wall.