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by freshhawk 5252 days ago
We have one so far.

Let's see how many comments we can get explaining why this was bad when Microsoft did it with IE but just fine when Apple does it with iBooks.

Bonus points if you somehow spin embrace-extend-destroy as a good thing by conflating what's good for the users with what's good for Apple and its shareholders.

3 comments

I still don't understand how they are getting away with the 'agency model' for ebooks. With those deals, no one but apple can make money selling ebooks in a native app on an iphone/ipad.
Apple has nothing like the monopoly position Microsoft had, certainly not in ebooks.

The closest to that would be Amazon, whose reader doesn't support epub at all.

freshhawk "you get used to it" is what a good friend told me about the troubles with using only apple products, did you see how much money they made