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Originally Posted by leebase
How about a "welcome to reality" card that so desperately needs to be handed out around here.
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Here's some reality for you:
Supporting epub 3 while "innovating" is absolutely not mutually exclusive, for Apple or anyone else. I have described, in detail, how it is not mutually exclusive here:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=112
Apple absolutely did not choose to not use epub 3 because they needed to "innovate". To claim that they did, is naive at best, disingenuous at worst.
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Apple could have implemented their interactive textbooks as a subset of epub 3, or in a fashiion that was supportive of epub 3, without sacrificing anything.
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Reality: What companies do to make money is not always in the best interest of the customer....and yet....it's in the best interest of the consumer for companies to be trying to earn their money.
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I'll ignore the fact that that is a sweeping generalisation that is impossible to prove and just provide an alternate sweeping generalisation, without an equal lack of proof:
"It's never in the best interests of the consumer if companies focus only on making as much profit as they can, to the exclusion of everything else. That's why we have governments and regulations."
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That Apple hasn't spent all this time, money and effort to launch this business...and then said to it's competitors...here the keys you need to jump in and take the market away from us without having had to innovate yourself....is NORMAL. Here's your reality-check card.
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If they think that obfuscating their format is actually going to prevent another company from competing with them, they are even stupider than I thought. You seem to realize that when you say:
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Just take your wonderful Calibre product and reverse engineer the new Apple iBook format so that folks can swap back and forth as they do between epub and mobi now.
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Now there's some actual reality for you.