It's sad to say, but in my opinion, Apple is so far ahead of the competition, I'll stick with them in spite of this.
And yes, I've had several Android phones, up to and including the Nexus S.
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
It sounds like that's banned too though. "The company has told some applications developers, including Sony, that they can no longer sell content, like e-books, within their apps, or let customers have access to purchases they have made outside the App Store ."
This is possible, but it's so difficult to enforce that I assume it must be a reporting error. Will the dropbox app prevent me from accessing more than 2GB of my folder? Will they force the Pandora app to keep playing music after 40 hours even if haven't paid for a subscription? Will I now have to buy a separate Netflix plan for my iPad that I buy in iTunes instead of getting that with my regular plan? The minute you…
I would say it becomes difficult to know not impossible. And as soon as they realize it they can remove the app from the appstore.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
It sounds like that's banned too though. "The company has told some applications developers, including Sony, that they can no longer sell content, like e-books, within their apps, or let customers have access to purchases they have made outside the App Store ."
This is possible, but it's so difficult to enforce that I assume it must be a reporting error. Will the dropbox app prevent me from accessing more than 2GB of my folder? Will they force the Pandora app to keep playing music after 40 hours even if haven't paid for a subscription? Will I now have to buy a separate Netflix plan for my iPad that I buy in iTunes instead of getting that with my regular plan? The minute you…
Well, remember Apple has a screening process so they don't have to detect credentials — they can just have the reviewer try buying something.
And they probably only really care about the big content sellers (Amazon, Google, etc.) so they wouldn't have that many apps to enforce it on.
As for the variety of different apps, Apple isn't exactly known for being consistent. I'm sure they could come up with different rules for subscription vs. a la carte downloads.
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#14First, I'm curious how much of this is a NYT tech reporter hoping to get a future Sony exclusive by making a big anti-Apple stink of something completely out of context.
Second, I hate it when Apple makes me feel internally conflicted. I love so much about the hardware and software, but I deplore their draconian stances on some things. On the other hand, some of those stances are things I like about them when it comes to supporting my families electronics. I need to go look at something shiny...
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#15It's sad to say, but in my opinion, Apple is so far ahead of the competition, I'll stick with them in spite of this. And yes, I've had several Android phones, up to and including the Nexus S.
good for you ...
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#16As 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.
Or any other reader, really, like the Sony's or the Nook. The Kobo is sold at about the same price as a Nook but is limited in a number of very annoying ways (no book wide search, no way to jump to a particular page etc.)
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#17This seems to be incorrect. Apple is not moving to tighten control; the restriction has been there for a while. I believe Apple banned non-Apple in-app purchases when they launched their in-app purchase system (if not before then). Edit: The article does say Apple "has told some applications developers … that they can no longer … let customers have access to purchases they have made outside the App Store." However, t…
Upon review of the iTunes Connect EULA in fall 2010, 3rd party in-app purchasing is possible as long as a pre-existing service which requires payments exists prior to the release of an app. For example, Evernote does/did qualify, because its service exists outside of the iOS app. Zoosk app may have this implemented — http://d.pr/oc2F
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#18If Apple blocks Kindle, I'm not buying an iPad. Kindle is practically the reason I was going to buy it. iBooks doesn't work for me, because iTunes does not accept credit cards from my country.
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#19As 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…
>The whole point of an ebook is to read them on multiple devices.
From a publisher's perspective, the point of an ebook is to cut down on manufacturing, storage, shipping, and other costs associated with a physical book. Since publishers own this game, I think we'll start seeing things get played increasingly by their rules as executives catch glimpse of potential savings in an ebook-dominant distribution chain.
And for Apple, it's a mechanism to lock-in, just like iTunes et al. Amazon doesn't have an interest in locking you in, so keeps books free, and has thus far been able to convince publishers that this is appropriate. Publishers may one day decide they can make double the money if people buy an iPad verison and a PC version, so I don't know how likely it is that Amazon will be able to keep that up.
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#20Apple can do whatever the heck they want. The market will be the sole judge whether their choices are correct or not.
So far the history is on their side.