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If anyone at Apple is reading this, this creates ridiculously bad UX for iOS users. Search for a book on Google. Click on an Amazon Kindle Search result. The A
by signal11 8y ago
If anyone at Apple is reading this, this creates ridiculously bad UX for iOS users.
Search for a book on Google. Click on an Amazon Kindle Search result. The Amazon iOS App launches and tries to find the book, realizes it's a Kindle result, launches Safari to show the result.
So the was trasitioned from Safari -> Amazon -> Safari pretty much because of petty politics from Apple. And all for what? A happy Kindle user isn't going to suddenly switch over to iBooks and you've just made life much worse for him.
The pettiness in the mobile platform wars is unbelievable.
- matwood 8y agoYou're absolutely correct. It's been awhile since I have bought anything not on Amazon's site. At one point I thought I could buy books in their app, but it's possible that was only samples. And yes, it's comical how bad the user experience is.
- daemin 8y agoSo basically all that Valve has to do is to redirect everyone that wants to make a purchase through Safari to the Steam web based store. Then it would be doing all of the selling on the web like a normal store, but content consumption could be done anywhere.
- matwood 8y agoExcept Valve cannot put the link to their website in their iOS app. Users just have to know to go the Valve web store.
- Spivak 8y agoThis policy isn't to drive users to iBooks. It's to drive Amazon to implement Apple's IAP for a sweet 30% cut of all purchases.