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Re:Why are you people defending Apple? by Pooter on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @08:22PM (#2229227)
Or, you know, it's a way to get content providers to sell through Apple. If there's a 30% premium to get on iOS through Amazon, a way around that is to just sell through iBooks.

We'll see how it shakes out. Maybe it'll be like the "nothing but objective-c" thing. People freak out too much about this kind of stuff.

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Re:Why are you people defending Apple? by statictype on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @08:33PM (#2229258)
We'll see how it shakes out. Maybe it'll be like the "nothing but objective-c" thing. People freak out too much about this kind of stuff.

I think part of the reason they rescinded on that is because people freaked out about it :)

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Re:Why are you people defending Apple? by Pooter on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @08:42PM (#2229289)
And because they realized that it ruled out large swaths of application classes that they don't have an issue with (games, for example).

Mostly, it was about keeping crappy flash apps of iOS. And from a platform perspective, that did actually make a lot of sense.

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