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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Yeah, but the probability or either EPUB 3 or KF 8 being more widely usable in the future is far higher than for .ibook. Or do you see Apple releasing an ibooks app for android, or linux, or even windows 8?
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"In the future" is the important part. In the mean time, Apple will have built a market and momentum for the iPad. Which is, you know, their business.
Competition is coming. Heck, Apple is coming into a market that already has entrenched players and politics galore beyond that.
Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Samsung -- huge competitors with deep resources. I'm sure they will join together to put forth an "industry standard". In time. In the future.
Had either of them moved first....then they'd have done so in the best interest of their own companies, and Apple would be among those joining together to create "industry standards" (can you say ePub)?
Apple in no way is guaranteed to succeed. They are doing what first movers do.
Lee