To be fair, Apple has not really changed their store guidelines and TOS. Apple is simply enforcing a rule that they have always had. Good or bad, I'll let you all decide. Just saying the Kindle issue is nothing new. Sony went through the same thing with the Sony Reader.
One could argue that developers should follow Apple's TOS with regards to selling applications on iTunes and not complain when a rule they knew about is enforced. One could also argue that Apple is being unfair. Or how about developers that knowingly break the rules and guidelines, is that fair to Apple?
You decide, not me. My views will not be popular, I'll bet.
I say if I developed applications, I would wonder if my hard work would be rewarded with a few good sales months or if after waiting and waiting for approval, would Apple simply not allow my app, thereby making it impossible to sell applications to iDevice owners.
I think Apple is on top because they like to control everything iDevice users do and can do. And charge you for it, too. Apparently Apple is good at it.
Jailbreak, is what I say. I would love to watch the all out war take place as soon as someone in the JB community decides it is time to meet Apple on the battlefield and release a JB program in a way that makes Apple take serious notice and realize that JB can have an impact of Apple's bottom line.
--- In iPad@yahoogroups.com, "David H. Bailey" <dhbailey52@...> wrote:
>
> On 7/25/2011 1:26 PM, April Duritza wrote:
> >
> >
> > You will still be able to buy books on your iPad by opening your web
> > browser (ie. Safari) and navigating to Amazon, then ordering the book.
> > You just won't be able to click the little button inside the app to
> > load the Kindle store in your browser. Which I have never done anyway.
> > So I feel that the whole thing has amounted, in the end, to much ado
> > about nothing.
>
> Which really makes one wonder what sort of egomaniacal power trip Apple
> is on -- they've done nothing but inconvenience the very people who have
> bought the device which has pushed them further up the computing food
> chain and made them richer than ever.
>
> I don't understand it -- what's with these big corporations? How come
> "richer than anything" is never "rich enough?"
>
>
>
> --
> David H. Bailey
> dhbailey@...
>
