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Originally Posted by gravescp
Steve said during the Keynote that ever application that runs on the iphone will run on the iPad. That includes the Kindle app, Barnes and Nobel, and Stanza. I know I don't have an iPad in my hand, but Apple does not fear the competition. They make the majority of their $ on the hardware, and if you want to run the Stanza app on the iPad. Enjoy :-)
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As far as I can tell, in context of the rest of this part of the keynote he meant that those applications will be runnable on iPad. I don't dispute that. I say that Apple won't allow them to run on iPad.
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Originally Posted by Crowl
That would be very retarded if they did that, with those two apps they have the widest range of books of any full-size reader which would seem an ideal way to attract readers who then become potential customers for iBooks.
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The problem with becoming potential customers for iBooks is that books in iBooks are set to cost 1.5 times as much as books on App Store apps. That's what Apple promised to large book publishers to get them on board. Now if Apple let other eBook readers compete with iBooks, it would cause the customers to move away from iBooks to those applications. So it would be retarded to let those apps compete with iBooks.
Several people in different threads said that if Stanza etc. aren't allowed to run on iPad, that would mean Apple retroactively withdraws them from App Store. I don't see how this could be - no iPad has yet been sold, no app has yet run on bought iPad, if some apps are allowed only on iPod, but not on iPad, no app ceases to be available where it was available before. The situation would stay clear as well - Stanza is allowed on iPod because iPod has no Apple-brand eBook reader, and it's not allowed on iPad because iPad has one.