Apple should be careful about creating a MAP in a roundabout way.
Apple Is Now Dead To Me
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That has more to do with Apple. There is nothing stopping you from putting other .txt and .mobi files (as an example) on your Kindle.
Indeed; my Kindle has no books from Amazon on it; it's all .mobi and .txt files I've loaded in myself. That's what makes it such a great device: I get to choose what I load onto it.
Same thing for my iBooks, which filled with PDFs and epubs, organized into Collections.
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#13I suppose taken to the extreme, someone could just sell a 'myAppStore' app in the Apple AppStore, and then use that to sell Apps without giving apple anything. Obviously that wouldn't do. Similar principle with the iBooks store.
If I recall correctly, you can't even pull that sort of a stunt on Android, now.
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#14What's the argument here? That Apple isn't entitled to a slice of revenue generated on its own platform?
I missed the part where the author explained why this is a reasonable stance to take...
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#15Apple provides a content distribution platform connected to a network of millions of devices, of course they're going to take a cut of revenue generated on their network
That's all very fair, but I think what people are taking exception to is Apple's attempts to prevent their customers from accessing other content distribution platforms where Apple doesn't get a cut.
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#16I don't see Amazon offering Apple's ebooks on the kindle.
Actually they do.
You see, Amazon has been around quite a bit longer than apple as an online book seller. The books in iBooks? Well, those are a strict subset of what the Kindle has available. I think this might be part of Apple's motivation -- to push iBooks to the forefront, at the risk of loosing BN/Amazon's support for the iPad.
It sucks for the consumer, but it'll be interesting to see how it works out...
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#17What's the argument here? That Apple isn't entitled to a slice of revenue generated on its own platform? I missed the part where the author explained why this is a reasonable stance to take...
I think you have this backwards. Apple doesn't provide distribution for Amazon Kindle. This is like if you bought an HP laptop and charging 30% for each purchase you make with an application simply because the content falls within a certain category. Nothing is stopping Apple from declaring tweets news feeds and charging per transmission. It's not likely to happen but they can do it at any point. This just illustrates the danger of doing business on a closed platform with absolute control. They are looking more and more like Microsoft everyday. As developers or businessmen you would be a fool to support Apple.
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#18I suppose taken to the extreme, someone could just sell a 'myAppStore' app in the Apple AppStore, and then use that to sell Apps without giving apple anything. Obviously that wouldn't do. Similar principle with the iBooks store.
If I recall correctly, you can't even pull that sort of a stunt on Android, now.
Correct. They even pulled a Kongregate app because it looked too similar to an app store.
Of course, this being Android, it's easy to just install it from an apk.
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Indeed; my Kindle has no books from Amazon on it; it's all .mobi and .txt files I've loaded in myself. That's what makes it such a great device: I get to choose what I load onto it.
It really sucks that I can't put .mobi and .txt files on my iPad. Damn you, Apple!
Non-iPad owner, so forgive me if I missed the joke, but can you seriously not do that on the iPad/iPhone? Weird. I use my Droid as a USB drive all the time.
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It really sucks that I can't put .mobi and .txt files on my iPad. Damn you, Apple!
Non-iPad owner, so forgive me if I missed the joke, but can you seriously not do that on the iPad/iPhone? Weird. I use my Droid as a USB drive all the time.
Of course you can do that on an iPad.