Apple Forcing E-Reader Apps to Remove Bookstores

[Guest]

Scuba Dave, the PC market is just as vibrant. I don't see MS telling PC software vendors this BS. Plus apple is forgetting, it's the external content providers/developers that make the apple what it is. They are just slitting their wrists with this decision. If there wasn't any content for IPAD, would you still want to use it?

 

[anders009]

[citation][nom]ericburnby[/nom]Wow, what a bunch of idiots posting - worse than the usual garbage.Google and Amazon already have their Apps back up, sans the Buy button. Why? Because having their App in a store with 200 million plus users is sending a lot of money their way. And sending ZERO money to Apple since the Apps are free and Apple makes no commission on any of the books people buy. They never made money before and they don't make mobey now.If the Buy button was included THEN Apple would have made 30%. So Apple is letting these companies produce a free App, host and distribute it at Apple's expense on Apple's servers, and make money without any going to Apple. And people are talking about antitrust. How stupid can you be?And I guess people forgot when the majority of publishers were asking Apple to provide the CC numbers of users to enable one-click buying without them having to require the user to provide it themselves.[/citation]

ericburnby you may want to brush up on your reading comprehension. The article says that they can't talk about an external store or link to the app store, so it makes buying content that much harder for the average user. Try reading the story before bashing others.

 

[godmode]

[citation][nom]ericburnby[/nom]Wow, what a bunch of idiots posting - worse than the usual garbage.Google and Amazon already have their Apps back up, sans the Buy button. Why? Because having their App in a store with 200 million plus users is sending a lot of money their way. And sending ZERO money to Apple since the Apps are free and Apple makes no commission on any of the books people buy. They never made money before and they don't make mobey now.If the Buy button was included THEN Apple would have made 30%. So Apple is letting these companies produce a free App, host and distribute it at Apple's expense on Apple's servers, and make money without any going to Apple. And people are talking about antitrust. How stupid can you be?And I guess people forgot when the majority of publishers were asking Apple to provide the CC numbers of users to enable one-click buying without them having to require the user to provide it themselves.[/citation]

huh? since when does apple deserve a cut on the profits on external content provided on some else's servers? if free apps is such an "expense" to host on apple servers then ban them altogether. i won't be surprised if they actual do ban free apps and still have customers worship Jobs like some god.

 

[Guest]

This really is a sad development for users. We generally have to shop around to find an e-store that has a particular book, and so far my experience with the Kobo upgrade has been terrible. I purchased a book, they debited my credit card, and I have yet to be able to read the book. The version that was loaded into my ipad was a preview with all the chapters locked. I deleted that version and there does not seem to be a facility to get the full version of the book into my Kobo reader. Apple, Kindle and Kobo have trashed users’ experiences in their smutty rat race for profits. My next pad will be an Android.

 

[guanyu210379]

People, who keep buying Apple products, are extremely stupid.
It is lucky that something like Android exists or I would have become stupid too.

 

[chronicbint]

Haters out in force ranting about nothing as per usual.

 

[torque79]

Anyone from Canada able to find the Google Books android app? I did a search for Google Books, or just Books, or even searched for Google and browsed for it, but I can't find the google bookstore when searching on my Galaxy S Captivate.

 

[gorehound]

This company most certainly has become a true 1984 example.I would do a good boycott unless they smarten up.Hopefully a court case will arrive because of greedy behavior like this example.

 

[ojas]

Jailbreaking FTW! 😀

 

[jcesmi]

[citation][nom]chronicbint[/nom]Haters out in force ranting about nothing as per usual.[/citation]

There is a lot of anti-apple here, but as a apple product owner who has been shafter by this (and a few other apple owners have posted here), it seems apple are in the wrong - legally in the wrong. But nothing is being done about it.

 

[sundragon]

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[DaddyW123]

All of these e-reader companies should just start producing official apps for cydia and give you the full experience on jailbroken phones and pads - then advertise for it, and give instructions on their own webpages on how to jailbreak phones. Screw the man who is trying to screw you!
Somebody needs to put Jobs in his place!!

 

[jsc]

This is just the other side of the control needed for "It just works."

The only real surprise is that it took this long to show up.

 

[bustapr]

I wonder how Apple gets away with all of these anticompetitive practices. Their like a thief stealing a ladys purse right in front of the cops and walks away

 

[hoofhearted]

AT&T contract ends in August. Can't wait to jump in Sprint and Android waters. I've had a jailbroken 3gs (3.12) now for quite a while and it served well. This is a clear indication of where Apple evolution is headed. I am sure iPhone will become a minority in due time (just like macs did years ago) and Android will be the next Windows of the smartphone world. Just need to solve the fragmentation issues. Regardless, I am jumping anyway.

 

[Parrdacc]

[citation][nom]bustapr[/nom]I wonder how Apple gets away with all of these anticompetitive practices. Their like a thief stealing a ladys purse right in front of the cops and walks away[/citation]

First it helps to buy them off, once you do that you can use it to exercise influence. Once you have enough influence you can start becoming one yourself, once you are one you can change or ignore the laws or rules as you see fit.

 

[olin9]

Apple and its products suck. I do not even allow quicktime on any of my machines and it’s free. Please stop using junk, run away from Apple.

 

[doorspawn]

How many of you would vote for a law that forcibly separated hardware and OS ownership for computing devices such that any device must not actively try to prevent other OSes from being installed, and it must be possible to buy the hardware without an OS and vice versa, if both are sold together. (And perhaps ensure that the total price of buying OS and hardware separately cannot exceed some factor above the together price).

This would apply to desktops, laptops, smartphones, consoles, etc, but not to single-purpose things like washing machines, routers, cars and (dumb?)phones.

Please use the thumbs buttons to vote Yes or No.

 

[Guest]

Wow. Apple is just being whiny....New policies, and sueing people. Never buying Apple products again....Thank you Adriod and Window teams!

 

[liveonc]

There's money in these e-Books, but would you want to read an e-Book on a tablet, or play games on an e-Reader? Slow Apps or Flickering Books? Maybe Jobs should make an iReader or redefine the iBook...