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Old 04-30-2009, 07:09 PM   #83
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Originally Posted by bhartman36 View Post
They never "ported Mobipocket to the iPhone". Mobipocket doesn't run on the iPhone. The Kindle iPhone app is only related to Mobipocket in the sense that they both handle MOBI format e-books (although Mobipocket doesn't handle AZW-flavored ones, obviously). If it was, it wouldn't have taken this long to get the app out. (The iPhone/iPod app doesn't let you buy from Amazon, after all. It's strictly for reading.)
I'm fairly certain that's not true. The Kindle* uses Mobipocket's Java 1.0 code base (so does the Cybook, Iliad). For all intents and purposes it is a Mobipocket device.

*Curiously enough, the K2 and the original Kindle use different generations of the code. That's why the K2 supports tables and the original Kindle does not.
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