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Originally Posted by fbrII
I am in agreement with your second sentence. As for the first sentence "childish rants" is simply your judgement of other peoples opinion and doesn't that put you in the exact same league as the people you criticize.
You have chosen to post multiple times on this thread so what are the great and mighty principles that you stand for? That people don't have a right to criticize a company implementing a policy they don't believe in?
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You are right-I apologize for "childish rant" in the first instance.
I think Apple's policy is short-sighted and inflexible in this case, and doesn't reflect the fact that the eBook market, unlike music, TV, and movies, is still in its infancy. I think the iOS App Store has become unwieldy as it tries to deal with apps, in-app purchases, apps with music, apps with TV, apps with books, etc.
One size, one policy, doesn't fit all.
But I agree with MurrayPaul that it's not so much malice as it is indifference as far as Apple is concerned-they just don't see the eBook market as that big a deal right now. Last quarter, Apple's *profits* were over US$7 billion-Amazon's entire *revenue* was US$9.9 billion, with supposedly the entire Kindle/ebook portion being less than 10% of that, and we of course have no idea how profitable a market yet it is for anyone.
Anyways, in my experience, Apple doesn't usually go out of their way to make things more difficult or inconvenient for their users without a good reason. I just don't agree with this reason.