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Originally Posted by OtinG
To each their own, but I still don't see it that way at all. Even during Apple's attempted bullying of publishers and price fixing era, they still never put much interest into their store. It was a half-hearted and half-a$$ed attempt at best, and they never had a store big enough to compete with the likes of Amazon or even Barnes and Noble. Polishing the UI for an extremely under stocked store doesn't do any good IMO. They might as well put lipstick on a pig...
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Hum. That really wasn't what was reported at the time, nor what was said in the trial. Apple was reported to see it as potentially a big money maker. But, of course, with all the spin that has been put out by the case, it can be hard to remember what was said at the time, and what was the narrative put out afterwards by other parties. Sony was actually Amazon's main competition early on, not B&N. B&N didn't release the nook until late in 2009, Apple a few months later.
Nope, they never had a store that competed with Amazon's sheer size. Amazon put a lot of work into getting publishers on board and signing contracts. They saw early on that content was king. They made it very, very easy to put books up in the Kindle book store. Of course, they also made it very easy to put other people's books up as well, an issue they still have. My two big issues with Amazon is the lack of quality control and lack on continued innovation in the book store.