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Why Amazon Isn’t Worried About Apple’s In-App Purchasing Rules

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Re: Why Amazon Isn’t Worried About Apple’s In-App Purchasing Rules

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Post by Derbasti » Wed, Feb 23, 2011, 9:49 PM UTC

underdown wrote: post #17

Ah but what happens when Steve Jobs wants a 30% cut of all sales made on Apple desktops? ;)

IF Apple would then take care of marketing, payment, delivery and updating, people might actually use it. Developers would not like it, since Apple is providing these services for free right now, but the increased discoverability in the App Store might make up for it.

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Post by chc » Wed, Feb 23, 2011, 11:53 PM UTC

tomkarlo wrote: post #13

chc wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HTML5 local storage isn't ideal for this. It can only hold five or six ebooks at a time.

That really seems like an adequate number of books for the large majority (90%+?) of users, esp when you consider that downloading another only takes seconds. Before Kindle, did we complain that you could only carry a half-dozen books in your bag at a time? Not very often.

I thought the difficulty of carrying several books around was the Kindle's raison d'etre. I suspect you're right, though.

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