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A comment on Apple’s App Store and Antitrust.

Re:Apple’s App Store and Antitrust by xenophanes on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @09:10PM (#1476720)
> For example, iBooks provides a slider UI element to control the brightness level. This puts Apple in an unfair competitive position because other apps — such as the Kindle or even non-competing apps such as Instapaper2 — can’t offer this functionality to their users.

GoodReader has a brightness control built in. Are they not supposed to? Why not?

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Re:Apple’s App Store and Antitrust by lleger on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @09:47PM (#1476779)
The point is that the API Apple used to implement it isn't available to developers. GoodReader likely implemented a workaround, such as the one Instapaper has. It's not a native element, however.
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