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Originally Posted by kyteflyer
That would be the most sensible option. However, after seeing how they have killed/crippled Stanza, and kept the Kindle app, instead of incorporating the best of Stanza into Kindle, or making Kindle books available in Stanza... I'm not that confident that good sense will prevail. ONly time will tell  |
Do consider that some times conglomerates buy companies as a way to hire people.
(Microsoft does it a lot--they buy a company not so much for the product but for the IP, their resources, their staff, and especially the execs and techies.)
The big question about Stanza is: what about the people? Were they dumped on the street? Or are they spending their time twiddling their thumbs in their cubicles? Are they in charge of the iOS kindle app or other projects? Stanza itself is more than a piece of software; behind it there are algorithms, coding expertise, iOS expertise... Lots of value in that operation beyond an ebook reader app and Amazon has shown themselves to be extremely clever in finding value where others see none.
Things are never cut-n-dry in the big leagues.