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Originally Posted by dgatwood
Amusingly, iOS supports fixed-format KF8, which means they basically have most of the functionality working, and from talking to some of their developers a few years back, I expected full KF8 support by a couple of years ago. I wonder what set them back....
I guess they decided that trying to force people to buy their hardware was worth alienating the mobile users who spend the most money on on-device purchases. We'll see how that works out for Amazon in the long run....
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Dag:
I'm not sure that's the bottom line (pun intended). I do know that Apple has cheerfully gone out of its way to obstruct that development. I don't recall everything that the good folks up north told me, but it's clear that it wasn't quite one-sided. (Probably retribution for the Zon refusing to bend over and hand the fruit folks the vaseline on the "everything purchased through the app has to pay us 25% [or 50%] or whatever it was debacle).
Suffice to say, the children don't play nicely together.
Hitch