Thread: Kobo's sticking it to to Apple.
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Old 07-26-2011, 05:06 PM   #25
murraypaul
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Originally Posted by wodin View Post
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.
What processing? If it is just selling books, Amazon seem to be managing that just fine without the power of HTML5.
If it is reading, I'm back to saying that a web-browser seems like a sucky user experience for an ebook reader, and what does it provide that you can't do now?

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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.
Hyperbolic much?
Firstly Kobo haven't done anything, they've just made an announcement. Secondly this is hardly anything new. You know how you cant use Flash in an iOS browser? There are sites that provide that functionality through redirects, Apple don't seem to have collapsed yet.
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