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That's not a good comparison. An iOS device is not like a book shop. The iBooks application is. Nobody's asking that you can buy Kindle books in iBooks, but you
by emsy 8y ago
That's not a good comparison. An iOS device is not like a book shop. The iBooks application is. Nobody's asking that you can buy Kindle books in iBooks, but you can't even buy Kindle books in the Kindle app because Apple would demand 30% of the book. If you open the Kindle app on Windows you can buy books in there and Microsoft doesn't take a cut of the sale. People would lose their mind over this. Why is Apple different?
- pjmlp 8y agoYou can import books via iTunes.
- headmelted 8y agoYou're still missing the point. Apple owns a mall (iOS). In that mall, Apple owns a book store (iTunes). Amazon also has a book store in the mall (Kindle). Apple does not want to sell Amazon's books (Kindle format ebooks) in it's store (iTunes). Ok. Apple decrees that no store in the mall shall sell any books but iTunes books, which only they may sell. Not Ok.
- andromeduck 8y agoAmazon is free to sell books in their app, they just need to pay a portion of their revenue for the privilege of doing so much like in the mall.
- emsy 8y agoAnd Apple is forcing everyone to sell in their mall and no other. That's pretty much the point.
- pjmlp 8y agoThere are other malls available, across the world Apple's mall is quite small.
- kelnos 8y agoWe're not talking about the world. We're talking about the universe of the iPhone. In the brick-and-mortar world, malls are fungible, and stores that sell the same goods are fungible. The iPhone is not fungible.
- emsy 8y agoIn relative numbers yes, but I wouldn't call short of a billion active devices "quite small".
- pjmlp 8y agoStill, there is a choice for anyone that wants to sell products. Anyone that wants to constrain themselves to a single market, needs to accept the rules of focusing on a single market.
- Orphis 8y agoAre you really free to do something if it comes with highly unfavorable conditions then?
- had2makeanact 8y agoDo malls take a portion of the revenue generated from the stores? I assumed they just paid rent and kept the money generated.
- andromeduck 8y agoHow malls and stores negotiate rental agreement is very ad-hoc and strategic but yeah it is often directly or indirectly tied to revenue.