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Originally Posted by Penforhire
Phogg, that's all very nice until it becomes the norm and you can't read non-redacted texts. Call me sensitive. On this topic I am. Or put it this way, the iPhone is the hottest mobile device in history. Something like this has the potential to influence other outlets.
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Iphones are trendy but hardly the only thing out there. If you chose to buy Apple then you chose their limitations.
Apples closed system cost them the majority PC business market twenty five years ago when they wouldn't open up development to third parties overmuch. They will always relegate themselves to being merely a niche market (and an overpriced one). They not only are not the only option, usually they aren't even the highest tech one.
You will note that Apple never embraced the computer game market. I would point out that it has developed and flourished in spite of Apple's diffidence toward it. So if you claim that Apple not publishing books will have some wide ranging chilling effect on the over all market, well, that is not an assertion supported in even the slightest bit by the empirical evidence of the recent past.