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Originally Posted by rcentros
Why "should" they? In-App sales is just one method of buying eBooks. I'm guessing most eBooks are not purchased via smartphones or tablets. What they are doing is giving themselves a huge advantage on their own platforms. And despite that, Google (apparently) barely has a toe-hold in eBook market and Apple (who gamed the system by colluding with the publishers and then by charging a 30% "extortion tax" to its competitors) so far isn't able to overcome Barnes & Noble. So that's good news. Greed doesn't always win out. Maybe Amazon and Barnes & Noble have better prices and a better selection — and a customer base older than Apple's eBook store.
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This was less aimed at you and more at those claiming these changes were antitrust violations. Granted the ineffectiveness to topple Amazon doesn’t mean they are antitrust violations, however it’s certainly not the devastating force some want to make it out to be.
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My point still stands. Extorting 30% from other eBook sellers for in-app purchases gives Apple a huge advantage on their platform. Without this advantage Apple's market share might be much smaller.
The main point of my original post was to compare Google's "extortion" greed to Apple's. I'm happy to see that greed hasn't gained them a huge chunk of the eBook market.
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It’s hardly fair to pretend anyone on that list who isn’t Amazon haven’t made decisions which have kept them from growing. Especially BN who for a long time have seemed to be playing a game of what can we do to sink our ebook business even more. Apple might be exactly where they are regardless of their App Store policy.
If your main gripe is you don’t like Google now matching Apple on in app purchases that’s all well and good. My gripe was with the claim that these policies are antitrust violations. Which thus far seems to be the rallying cry for several people in this thread yet none have been able to give an actual violation. Everyone involved has choices, the apps can still load books purchased, and unless someone has evidence to the contrary Apple nor Google has done nothing to hinder the performance of the app. Meaning it can do everything it’s programmed to do.