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Originally Posted by Tamara
No need to be a jerk  . It's not a different situation. Proprietary DRM is proprietary DRM. Amazon not only avoided epub, they also obviously didn't want to license DRM from Adobe since they came up with their own. At least Apple is using epub and we don't know what DRM scheme publishing companies will require. |
I wasn't being a jerk, but your need to try and defend Apple is more than a little excessive at times, the iPad does lots of things really well, but it is not perfect and anyone defending it as if it was just seems like they need to get some perspective as defending the bad points weakens your arguments on all the good points because people will assume you would automatically defend anything.
The situation with ePub was very different back when the Kindle came out, it was not the most popular form factor unlike now where it has become the defacto standard on every device besides the kindle now.
Apple using ePub is a good thing, allowing people to synch drm-free ePubs is a good thing, using another incompatible DRM scheme for ePub is a bad thing and trying to defend that is silly.