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Originally Posted by charleski
Apple could have worked with Adobe to cross-licence the technology and integrate FairPlay's book DRM just as B&N did with their variant. This would have allowed the iPad to work with books using current schemes at the very least, while using FP for new books bought from Apple's store. It wouldn't have given Adobe control over Apple's store, and it would have benefited the consumer.
But no, Apple wants it all. To quote Apple COO Tim Cook, "We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make." Their megalomanic obsession with vertical integration will merely harm the market they claim to be promoting. |
it's called quality control. "megalomanic"? hardly. and how exactly are they harming the industry? why on earth would apple pay adobe to license something they can very well do themselves? its smart business which the typical end-user will never care about. and that's somehow a universal bad thing? bear in mind that some folks who read these forums may be "typical" end users, but many may not. i don't think big businesses like apple and amazon care about the extreme users. they care about making something simple and easy to use and approachable for the masses. that's their bread and butter.