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> So why aren’t those who are criticizing Apple for taking a 30 percent cut of subscription revenue criticizing Amazon? Who says people aren't criticizing Amaz
by technomancy 16y ago
> So why aren’t those who are criticizing Apple for taking a 30 percent cut of subscription revenue criticizing Amazon?
Who says people aren't criticizing Amazon? Their DRM-infested marketplace is very customer-hostile. The difference is that you can use the hardware without using their marketplace.
- ugh 16y agoIsn’t that equally true for iOS devices? What can you do with a Kindle except buying books from Amazon? As far as I know, you can read books without DRM and you can surf the web. That’s equally true for all iOS devices. What else does a Kindle allow you to do that you cannot do on an iOS device sans apps?
- abuden 16y agoYou'd be hard-pressed to call the Kindle a general-purpose computing device; its hardware limitations make it more or less useless for anything but reading. Apple's limitations on what you can do with your devices are artificial and arbitrary.
- trotsky 16y agoIt seems to me that the difference is what you purchased the device for. Based on advertisements, I'd say the usual goal of an iOS purchase is to run apps and the usual goal of a Kindle purchase is to read books. You can read books on the kindle that amazon doesn't approve of, but you can't (reasonably) run apps on an iOS device that Apple doesn't approve of.
- bane 16y agoAnd you can use their marketplaces without using their hardware.