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Old 01-30-2010, 06:46 PM   #32
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Um most of your complaint is about Amazon using DRM as well and that not allowing you portability. I am sorry but Amazon videos are DRMed just as much as Apple so you cannot get it on the device.
You're missing the point. I can't get the video on the device because Apple won't allow me to run an application that will play it. I can't get DRM-free content directly onto the device because Apple won't allow me to run an application to shop at that store.

The B&N, and Kobo, and Kindle (and etc.) applications exist to do two things:

1) Shop at a non-Apple store.
2) Read (play back) DRMed content purchased from that store.

Apple has a track record of not allowing you to buy from competitors or read/play files encumbered with competitors' DRM. The icing on the cake is that the current default provider of .epub DRM is Adobe, a company that Apple has legendarily bad relations with.

As much as I hope I'm wrong, these things combine to make me think that the chances of seeing apps for competing bookstores is about the same as the chances of seeing apps for competing music or video stores.
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