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Old 08-24-2022, 01:54 PM   #107
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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
I blame Apple for giving Amazon really awful, "inside the walled garden" ideas.

Of course, I blame Apple for lots of things, so you have to take my comments with a grain of salt. Ever since, way back in the early days of the iPad, I bought a $1600 iPad, first-gen, that was supported for about 3 months AFTER I bought it and then turned into a big-ass, expensive doorstop when--typical Apple--the iOS was no longer supported, I have not had much luv for Apple.

I've seen what they (Apple) do to my clients, with iOSes, software, nuking programs that people love/adore, etc. all in the name of "selling more units" (what was that program, Garage Band or something like that?) and...no matter how vexed I get with Amazon, I know that they supported that damn K2 for what, 14 or 15 years now? From 2008-ish to now? Even though it was a relatively cheap device?

Hell, I'd rather deal with the annoyance of having to make KF7 versions of books and all that, and know that out there, all those hundreds of thousands or even millions of people, aren't being abandoned left, right and center, just so Amazon can earn $100 on a tablet or Kindle, than have what to me would be the luxury of NOT making KF7 book versions and thinking about everybody that has to buy a new device, that may not have the dough.

Granted, Kindles don't cost what iPads did. No argument. But...a Fire is a pretty remarkable tablet, for very, very VERY little money and I'm glad that even the very first one works yet, happily clumping along. Just...I hate seeing Amazon's book formats go the way of iAuthor and frankly, they should look at WHY Apple abandoned iAuthor. Lessons to be learnt there.


Hitch
How do you handle differences in iBooks/Books? The iPad one was a terrible hardware design. It was underpowered with not enough memory. Even with some programs that were supposed to run on whatever iOS the iPad 1 used, some would crash or just not run.

You did however break the cardinal rule regarding Apple. NEVER EVER BUY ANY 1ST GEN THING FROM APPLE AS IT'S GARBAGE! Even when it works, it still doesn't work. The AirPods did work sort of. The battery was way way too underpowered.

iAuthor is gone. How do we get rid of Vellum? How do we get rid of KFX? How do we get rid of the wide margins and wide line height Amazon forced on Kindle users? How do we get rid of publisher staff that have no idea how to make will formatted eBooks?
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