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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
Once more, he said "most" apps.
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Yep, that is what he said. But I took it as weasel wording from the law department.
The way I see it, Apple is a hardware company. Creating a device which is accessible for
all flavors of file & DRM means that the device is attractive to people who already own ebook readers and ebooks, and who don't want to give them up. It also attracts people new to ebooks, who will figure that they can have all the ebooks, without being tied down to a proprietary dedicated reader.
It's kind of the reverse of Amazon. Amazon sells books, and now ebooks, but they cannot last having their ebooks tied down to a single kind of ebook reader. If they try to, Apple will eat their ebook lunch. In fact, Apple might see the iBook store as a statement to all the other ebook providers - namely, that Apple will eat said lunch unless they protect themselves by creating iPad apps for their proprietary ebooks.
So it seems to me that in the case of ebooks, Apple's business interests make it likely that the iPad will run other ebook apps. Kobo obviously thinks so.
So while it's possible that Apple will exclude some or all ebook apps, that's not the way to bet.