Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks
by Paianni on Sunday January 13, 2019 @12:18PM
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Amazon could kill support for any platform at any time if they wish. If I get any eBooks at all I want them to be in an open standard (e.g ePub) with no DRM whatsoever.
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Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks
by EdwardCoffin on Sunday January 13, 2019 @12:51PM
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And they have a history of doing this. Before they had the Kindle, they sold Adobe digital editions content, and after they made the switch they retired the Adobe digital edition license servers. I lost an ebook I desperately wanted when they did this. They didn't send a warning about the upcoming retirement either, despite the books being registered to email addresses which they could easily have sent alerts to.
Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks
by nanoseltzer on Sunday January 13, 2019 @02:50PM
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They probably couldn’t do this to the kindle stuff now at this scale, if that’s any comfort.
Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks
by chipotle_coyote on Sunday January 13, 2019 @12:46PM
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I definitely prefer that. Amusingly, most of my DRM-free ebooks are in Apple Books, because it's become a really great reader and it's trivial to get "outside" books into it.
Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks
by skh on Sunday January 13, 2019 @12:41PM
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That is certainly true. But given the choice between Amazon or Apple when it comes to digital content I choose Amazon for the reasons given. Maybe they'll lock things down but I doubt it.