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Originally Posted by kilron
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.
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It's pretty obvious that a typical end user would like to buy a shiny new iPad and still be able to read the books bought for their old Sony. It's pretty obvious that the current fractured state of the ebook market in which books bought at store A won't work on device X is a major factor in limiting its growth and merely causes frustration for customers. Of course that's a 'bad thing'!
This has nothing to do with 'extreme users', who will simply strip the DRM and convert the format. This is about the ordinary customer who simply wants to be able to read the books they bought.
It's certainly not about quality control. It's about Apple wanting to snub Adobe for wider political reasons.