Poor Apple gets beat up over all manner of egregious and some say, horriterrible things--real and imaginary. I thought it might be polite to point out that Apple is not the bad guy here. But some large concerns are.
--- In iPad@yahoogroups.com, Ryan Waldon <ryan@...> wrote:
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> You nailed it, square in the head. Basically, there's a lot of folks scapegoating Apple for enforcing limits it had already set at the beginning. The way I see it, Apple could have been at risk for Federal intervention due to the fact that most app-devs were adhering to the rule, while a conspicuous few were being 'permitted' to ignore/violate it.
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> --ryan
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> Sent from my Apple iPad 2 
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> On Jul 27, 2011, at 14:31, "bobbyzio36" <bobbyzio36@...> wrote:
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> > See, here is what I do not understand. According to everything I have read--including things from Apple and on various dev forums--Apple has always restricted in-app purchases.
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> > According to your post, Amazon is calling something that has always (apparently) been a part of the contract. so Amazon is not being truthful in that they are blaming Apple by calling this a recent change.
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> > To be fair to Apple, Amazon apparently broke the rules and violated Apple's TOS.
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> > Can anyone clarify?
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