Re:Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case
by dylan604 on Friday September 10, 2021 @02:23PM
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But yet you can by directly from Amazon in their app without using Apple. How can Apple say that they cannot sell eBooks directly on Kindle app, but allow direct sells from the retail store?
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Re:Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case
by layer8 on Friday September 10, 2021 @02:29PM
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You can’t buy Kindle books with the iOS Amazon app. It only allows to download a free sample.
Amusingly, when you tap on an Amazon link to a Kindle book in iOS Safari, it redirects to the app (because of the Amazon URL), but then the app notices that it’s a Kindle book page and redirects back to Safari.
Re:Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case
by jclardy on Friday September 10, 2021 @03:34PM
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It's because then Apple Books would have to compete with the Kindle app on fair terms. IE Apple is being anti-competitive and giving their own app an advantage. This is basically a part of what the original lawsuit was about.
Re:Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case
by bertil on Saturday September 11, 2021 @04:20AM
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Apple doesn’t ban sales of eBook, but claims that those are software and would apply a 30% processing fee to them like on all virtual goods. They also demand the price to be comparable to other sources, so Amazon has to decide between
1. taking a 30% hit on its iOS sales, 2. forgoing them, or 3. raise its prices of eBook by 30% on its main app.
There are enough few enough iOS sales, and free sample downloads lead to enough conversion on the website later to go for 2.
Apple doesn’t make the same claim on physical goods.