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deltop · 01-28-2010, 05:50 AM

I think some people are being far too paranoid

Although I'll admit it IS Apple so they probably have good reason to be. But look at the facts so far.

1. There are already a number of ebook apps in the app store. Apple would annoy lots of consumers and companies by banning them.

2. Apple is already far far less stringent now when it comes to competing apps. There are a ton of apps out there now that "compete" with the so called core functionality of Apple's own apps.

3. The sdk shows that the iPad has a shared directory that can be mounted on your pc or mac and that apps can access this. This is a biggy imho as previously for the Touch and iPhone you had to jump through convoluted hoops to get your own non itunes content on board. This will make it easy to get comics and other content say epubs on there.

01-28-2010, 05:50 AM	#19
deltop Zealot Posts: 136 Karma: 244 Join Date: Aug 2007 Device: Kobo Glo	I think some people are being far too paranoid Although I'll admit it IS Apple so they probably have good reason to be. But look at the facts so far. 1. There are already a number of ebook apps in the app store. Apple would annoy lots of consumers and companies by banning them. 2. Apple is already far far less stringent now when it comes to competing apps. There are a ton of apps out there now that "compete" with the so called core functionality of Apple's own apps. 3. The sdk shows that the iPad has a shared directory that can be mounted on your pc or mac and that apps can access this. This is a biggy imho as previously for the Touch and iPhone you had to jump through convoluted hoops to get your own non itunes content on board. This will make it easy to get comics and other content say epubs on there.