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Originally Posted by emellaich
Not sure if your trolling or mean this as a serious statement, but there is no way you can compare the iPad restrictions to Amazon's. There have been a few (actually only one that I recall) cases where Amazon withdrew content. In this case it was a legal issue. According to law, Amazon should not have sold what it already sold. Furthermore, Amazon has said they wouldn't do that again. Amazon did not make an editorial decision to remove said content.
In the case of Apple, there is no legal justification. Apple decides what is good for you. Sometimes it has moral issues. Other times it doesn't like satire. At times it has competitive concerns. Or performance concerns. Apple just seems to have a wide range of reasons for refusing content that doesn't meet its criteria.
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i wasn't trolling. it was a serious statement. yes amazon has only done this once. but fact is, they have done it, where apple has not.
and yes. apple has all sorts of restrictions on content they allow into their store, but guess what. we know this in advance. developers know this, and people who buy their products know this. so if you don't agree with it, simply don't buy their products.
i'm sure amazon, in their fine print, said somewhere that they could yank content off your device at any time, but it's something else to do it. and yes, they had a legal obligation to do so after the seller wasn't authorized to sell the content, but amazon could have handled it
far differently than they had, than sneaking into your house in the middle of the night and removing a book from your bookshelf.
so you can't really say amazon treads any moral high ground here, or that apple does either. i was simply pointing out that all of the companies out there are pretty much equally bad.