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Re:Kindle Development Kit by rbanffy on Thursday January 21, 2010 @03:36PM (#1068258)
As ianferrel and ableal explained, the day Kindle software becomes the obvious way to read e-books on the Newton ][ (I love that name - too bad it won't be), Amazon wins.

Apple will do whatever it takes to prevent Amazon from controlling the ecosystem.

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Re:Kindle Development Kit by stcredzero on Thursday January 21, 2010 @05:16PM (#1068500)
My point is that Apple doesn't have to "win" in this way. Why does Apple care if Amazon "controls the ecosystem," when they can still sell high margin hardware? Does Apple have to control the Web because they publish Safari? Safari was a play to assure the continued viability of OS X. Apple doesn't necessarily want to "win". They want to make money. "Winning" isn't necessary in every case for that.
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