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Pandora and Kindle both duplicate Apple services (iTunes & iBooks, respecitvely) to some degree. It's not particularly surprising that Apple wants to kick them

Pandora and Kindle both duplicate Apple services (iTunes & iBooks, respecitvely) to some degree. It's not particularly surprising that Apple wants to kick them out now. They've probably had this planned all along and ready to put into action once they got big enough. What do you think your average iPhone or iPad owner is going to do in response to this change - buy a Kindle or Android device so they can keep using Pandora/Kindle, or just buy stuff from Apple's services instead?

avree 16y ago
iBooks maybe, but iTunes? There's absolutely no functionality cross-over between the two, with the exception of the broad category of providing a way to listen to music...
- Qz 16y ago
  iBooks doesn't even make any sense, considering Kindle came first by a longshot. iBooks is only there to turn the iPad into a (poor) Kindle substitute.
  - cgranade 16y ago
    Exactly. If duplicating a service is grounds for rejection and expulsion, then what is a company to do when Apple moves into a new market? Should the New York Times not have a newspaper app now that The Daily has been endorsed by Apple? Should Google Maps close up shop when Apple gets around to implementing navigation? Maybe Foursquare should pack it up once Apple adds check-in support to the base OS. All snark aside, it's never a sound business model to hand a possible competitor the "off" switch for your business.
zarify 16y ago
If I were a serious book reader on my idevice, then I definitely would buy a Kindle. The markup on books in the iBookstore compared to the Amazon store is enough to pay off the Kindle in less than a year's worth of reading. (Hell, it'd pay off my -iPad- in a couple of years, assuming I converted all my paper reading to ereading)