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Originally Posted by Spiffy
A lot of things don't "play nice" with iPad. *I am assuming here that you are talking about Sony not having their own Kindle-for-iPad-like Application for the iPad to read books downloaded from the Sony store, because if you are simply talking about hooking a Sony Reader up directly to an iPad and getting some kind of interoperability... well... almost nothing does THAT. *Apple made sure of it.
What's not clear in this case is whether or not Sony is missing an opportunity that is realistic for them. *I'm not sure they are. *They're primarily in the hardware business. *Amazon is primarily in the content business. *So "Kindle for iPad" makes sense. *Amazon's selling physical Kindles in the side business, even if its become a profitable one. *Not so for Sony. *In their case, the eBook store is the side business, not the hardware. *Building custom apps around the ebook store seems a bit out of their expertise (and maybe a waste of time).
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Seems that having your books accessible on other devices helps sell hardware. A good number of Amazon Kindle forum posters start reading on iPhones and iPod Touches, then buy a Kindle. Maybe Sony doesn't care about such sales in the scheme of things.