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Old 10-24-2012, 04:58 PM   #147
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Originally Posted by Penforhire View Post
pl001, what do you mean "Apple doesn't allow sideloads?" Perhaps you mean strictly through iTunes? I had quite a few sideloaded e-books on my iPhone in different apps (e.g. loading/reading PDF's using Air Sharing). Even iTunes allows sideloaded music (99% of my collection are rips from my own CD's). I've made plenty of my own free iPhone ringtones (even before there were free apps for that). The garden walls are not as high as people like to think.
I'll take a guess that he means having to use iTunes, versus sideloading via open standards and common connectivity. Having to use iTunes to get sideloaded data into Apple's encrypted database before the files can be used, versus just copying stuff via a USB MSC connection represents a far more prison-like walled garden then Amazon, when you can simply plug the device into any modern PC, copy files over, and use them.

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