[MGlitch]

They’re effectively the same. Amazon is, in this instance, a software company while Apple is a hardware company.

Buy a Kindle and you’re locked in to using Amazon for your books. Yeah you can read them elsewhere if you have another device but most people have at most a computer a tablet and a smartphone. So they’re basically locked in to Amazon if they have a kindle fire.

Buy an iPad and you can get the nook app the kobo app the Amazon app. Sure you can only read any books you purchase from Apple on the iOS device or a Mac but you’re not limited to them.


So which is more restrictive? The company that doesn’t let you use any other bookstores on their device or the one that requires you to use their device to read books from them but let’s you use every other bookstore?

Seems pretty six of one half a dozen of the other to me.