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Is it possible that Amazon was playing 'chicken' with the Kindle app, and finally at the last moment, Apple relented and Amazon won? On an episode of The Talks
by statictype 15y ago
Is it possible that Amazon was playing 'chicken' with the Kindle app, and finally at the last moment, Apple relented and Amazon won?
On an episode of The Talkshow, Gruber was speculating that this would come to a head in early June and that something had to happen either way: The Kindle app gets pulled or Apple makes some kind of exception to the rule.
- warmfuzzykitten 15y agoKindle is not a subscription service. The relevant clause would be about in-app purchases. But it wouldn't surprise me that Amazon threatened to pull off the platform, and more power to them. If I were Jeff Bezos I wouldn't be removing any buttons or links from my apps, either.
- recoiledsnake 15y agoNetflix is a subscription service. Apple's been approving Netflix and Kindle updates silently while picking on the small guys because they could, many small guys left the platform in frustration.
- pyre 15y ago> while picking on the small guys because they could Are you suggesting that Apple wasn't approving new updates from smaller players because they didn't follow a policy that wasn't in effect yet?
- recoiledsnake 15y agoYes, that is what Apple was doing.
- m_eiman 15y agoReference?
- recoiledsnake 15y agohttp://techcrunch.com/2011/03/15/apple-kindle-netflix-in-app/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/15/apple-kindle-netflix-in-app...
- m_eiman 15y ago"The big questions: is Apple playing favorites? ... It’s still wait-and-see, but this looks promising." Doesn't seem like evidence of them doing anything other than allowing the big players to update their apps as usual?
- Terretta 15y agoI can't buy NetFlix in the app so it's not relevant. The problem was in app subscriptions or purchases.
- guywithabike 15y agoOr maybe Amazon/Netflix/et al acted like mature, responsible companies and worked out a compromise with Apple?
- patrickk 15y ago"....worked out a compromise with Apple?" I chuckled when I read this. Work out a compromise with Apple? Most reasonable people would view Apple's position as being too constraining on content providers. If another tech giant whom I won't mention pulled a move like this, then people who be up in arms about it. But no, not for Apple ;-)
- statictype 15y agoWell, clearly that wasn't the case. Unless the 'compromise' consisted of Apple relenting fully. Almost all the terms of IAP for subscriptions that were unfavorable to publishers have been removed.