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Originally Posted by KevinH
Yes I see people's need to defend Apple here but the bottom line is this product as designed is truly a waste of time. What people seem to keep missing is that it ONLY can produce textbooks for the iPad
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Yes. That is what it is for.
It isn't a waste of time for people who want to do that.
If you don't want to do that, then it is a waste of time
for you.
It is truly a waste of time (or not) in exactly the same way that the KF8 tools are (or not).
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Apple actually had a chance to create a GarageBand for ebooks and textbooks and blew it by deviating from the epub 3 spec, by refusing to even load or read epubs, by locking this down to just one device on just one platform.
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Apple's aim is to sell more iPads. Having more content for iPads helps them do that. Having more content for other devices doesn't.
They have no particular interest in producing generic ebook tools, any more than Amazon do.
You are describing their acts as failures because they haven't done what you wanted them to do. I doubt they care.