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Re:Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo by smachiz on Thursday December 01, 2022 @09:33AM (#33816703)
Interesting that you mention the kindle - wouldn't it also be nice to be able to buy Apple Books on your Kindle hardware? You also can't do that. You can root some Kindles and install other software, but is more or less like jailbreaking an iPhone.

The issue I have with people going after Apple is that _everyone_ does this more or less.

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Re:Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo by sylens on Thursday December 01, 2022 @03:07PM (#33821966)
The Kindle is not sold or marketed as a general purpose computing device with a robust third party app marketplace. That's the key difference here.
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Re:Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo by smachiz on Thursday December 01, 2022 @03:28PM (#33822253)
It does have a robust 3rd party app marketplace... with fees.

Amazon could sell books if they wanted to, they would just have to pay Apple.

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