Thread: Is iPad DRM iBad for our freedoms...?
View Single Post
Old 01-29-2010, 10:08 AM   #27
Pardoz
Which side are you on?
Pardoz once ate a cherry pie in a record 7 seconds.Pardoz once ate a cherry pie in a record 7 seconds.Pardoz once ate a cherry pie in a record 7 seconds.Pardoz once ate a cherry pie in a record 7 seconds.Pardoz once ate a cherry pie in a record 7 seconds.Pardoz once ate a cherry pie in a record 7 seconds.Pardoz once ate a cherry pie in a record 7 seconds.Pardoz once ate a cherry pie in a record 7 seconds.Pardoz once ate a cherry pie in a record 7 seconds.Pardoz once ate a cherry pie in a record 7 seconds.Pardoz once ate a cherry pie in a record 7 seconds.
 
Posts: 370
Karma: 1964
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Variable, currently Czestochowa, Poland.
Device: Kindle 2 Int'l
Quote:
Originally Posted by orwell2k View Post
That's why I think Stevie and the boys take the eBook market seriously, incorporating the "ability" to read into the iPad and therefore hoping to sweep up some extra market $$$ if someone wants a book. But they take the music, video, surfing and gaming markets (and therefore functions) more seriously, and maybe in $$$ terms that's wise.
That was pretty much what I was driving at - if they just want to pocket some extra money from occasional or impulse purchases of e-books, I think we're almost certain to see competing apps available. If they want the whole meal and not just the scraps, why open the market to anybody else?
Pardoz is offline   Reply With Quote