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Apple Moves to Tighten Control of App Store

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Post by Tycho »

msmithstubbs wrote: post #39
jkincaid wrote: post #3

The really interesting bit is where it says that developers won't be able to "let customers have access to purchases they have made outside the App Store". Amazon has worked around Apple's rules by always kicking users out to the browser to complete the transaction. This apparently kills that.

The article does say that, but it's not clear who the source for this is. Amazon and Apple declined to comment, and the only confirmed report from Sony is with regard to in-app purchases, and I'm pretty sure that was an existing condition. So where is this new rule coming from?

So in other words the entire article could just be FUD? (from an disinterested party)

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Post by smackfu »

tehjones wrote: post #32

Thank you for linking an article behind a paywall, no seriously I am happy you can reach this piece and I am sure it is very informative.

NYTimes isn't a pay wall, it's a registration wall.

Like it has been for the last 10 years or so. Welcome to the internet.

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Post by dhimes »

nika wrote: post #33

My app was rejected once for violating the HIG. I really missed out on a PR opportunity to write up a big story about how Apple won't accept apps from gay people! Just because Apple rejects one app does not mean it is a new policy decision. I think these articles, which are, at their core, based on speculation, are frankly dishonest. Apple does not give reasons for rejections to anyone other than the submitter of the…

There are still many people who believe there is a defect in the iPhone 4's antenna, for instance.

You should have quit while you were ahead. The antenna fails, but the problem is fixed with a case. Furthermore , here's something else that I never saw anyone mention: The receiver has a terrible echo in some locations. Possibly because there is a rock cliff behind my house (I live on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, so the rocks are, shall we say, moist). I imagine that has something to do with the origin of the echo, but it's awfully close (the round-trip time for the radio signal would be imperceptible, so something else must be going on; if it was a tower problem I would think others would have mentioned it). I can fix the echo, sometimes by moving and other times by simply turning the phone.

I have an iphone 4. The others in my family have had or currently have iphones 1, 2, and 3. The iphones area all lousy as phones (my circa 2006 motorola Razr was a much better phone). The iphone rocks in many ways, but as a phone, no.

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Post by dhimes »

hsuma wrote: post #30

So Apple wants to block companies from allowing people to see content that wasn't paid for through their system. What's next, blocking paid websites? Surely Amazon would just set up a website where users could access their Kindle books, bypassing the whole App Store problem. This is silly on Apple's part as it decreases the potential audience for their devices, and the ease of use.

What's next, blocking paid websites?

I fear this.

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Post by cubicle67 »

dhimes wrote: post #45
hsuma wrote: post #30

So Apple wants to block companies from allowing people to see content that wasn't paid for through their system. What's next, blocking paid websites? Surely Amazon would just set up a website where users could access their Kindle books, bypassing the whole App Store problem. This is silly on Apple's part as it decreases the potential audience for their devices, and the ease of use.

What's next, blocking paid websites? I fear this.

I don't

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Post by octopus »

jefe78 wrote: post #10
drawkbox wrote: post #5

As an Apple owner of all their hardware and devices this is pretty lame and really hope it does not affect Amazon/Kindle. I have never owned a Kindle but prefer Kindle books and love them. I read them on PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, but mainly my iPad. If it weren't for Kindle, I may have bought a few more books on iBooks just for the iPad, but there are far fewer books and I like being able to read them on multiple device…

Check out the Kobo. I got one for Christmas and love the way they do things. I can even pop an SD card, full of PDFS into my ereader with no problems.

I can connect my Kindle to any Mac, Windows or Linux computer using a USB cable, the OS sees the Kindle as an external drive ... You can transfer as many documents as you want to your Kindle this way (actually as many as your Kindle can store, about 3GB for a Kindle 3).

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Post by apress »

Lex Friedman speculates that Sony may have tried to add a webkit-enabled quasi-browser based in app purchase feature, arguing that it was the same as Kindle and other apps that push you out to mobile Safari to buy ebooks. But it wasn't push the user out to Safari...http://blog.lexfriedman.com/post/2856721037/apple-hasnt-chan...
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