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Originally Posted by Readmoore
Every piece of news on Kindle Cloud Reader says it's rolled out in response to Apple's terms that kinda forced Amazon Kindle app to remove the button to access Amazon store.
I'm just puzzled as to how Cloud has anything to do with apple... It's a reader for the browsers. How does it solve the problem of not having the "Go to Store" button on iPad/iPhones? We could easily browse the internet on a computer and buy books anyway. and whatever books bought is automatically synced with those apple apps to begin with. So how does Kindle Cloud has anything to do with Apple's terms? Do those news reporters really know what they're talking about? Am I missing anything functions of the Cloud?
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Apple is clearly the target, given the timing (shortly after Store links were removed) and the choice of supported browsers, which includes iPad mobile Safari but not more 'popular' browsers like IE and Firefox (though Chrome is coming on strong), or even Android browsers, which are also WebKit based and should be relatively trivial to add support for.
It may be more 'symbolic' than anything—I'll still be using the native app, Kindle4iOS, even when they extend the web app support to iPhone/iPod—but it is a useful option in its own right and even, at last, represents a viable option for Linux users. It's also a demonstration of Amazon's competitive vitality and technical competence, which is important in many real ways.