HeH Jim, M$ already has had its monopolies and nobody even complained. Do you not know what deal Gates had, to become a billionaire. I am not worried about it. The argumentation is flawed. Non-DRM epubs can be loaded onto iOS devices. Go for PG. Apple is saying if you offer content outside the App store then you have to offer content through the App store. So it is not Apple restricting access. It is up to the makers of those Apps to decide on what devices the want their content on. As far the Kindle is concerned, we must wait and see what happens! In case you are wondering, I have not boughten M$ products in 10 years and very happy. Waiting for the iPad to reach my needs in specs. But, maybe it will never get there. Definitely, will not buy just as a reader. Though Apples reader offers more than the others. regards Keith. Am 02.02.2011 um 22:28 schrieb Jim Adcock:
On the other side Apple is in the business of selling books. Why should they support others without getting a piece of the cake. I guess Apple is, also, dumb because they do not sell the SONY and Kindle at the Apple Stores.
How would you respond if Microsoft acted to use the monopoly positions which Microsoft holds to force booksellers to all give Microsoft a "piece of the cake?"
We should all be very afraid when any Billionaire -- be it Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Robert Murdoch, or the Koch Brothers -- acts to use their powers to block our access to the information we want, from the publisher we choose.
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