About epub, Apple is just mad because they were not able to corner the market in a way that would allow them to dictate everything about it. Their proprietary f

About epub, Apple is just mad because they were not able to corner the market in a way that would allow them to dictate everything about it. Their proprietary format is a failure (the only benefit was to be able to use their publishing app, that they killed) and their marketplace sucks for all the usual Apple reasons. Even though Amazon is not a great actor in the field, they still manage to be not as bad as Apple so people went there. In any case, there is something fundamentally broken with ebooks, because of DRM. Because you know, somehow you weren't able to share books before. I know that don't "lose" your copy when you share digitally but for all intent, once a book has been read it is "consumed" the residual value it has for the owner is very little and mostly about archiving or collecting. Sadly, as with many things of modern Apple they had a bad influence on the market and they continue to do so and it is especially aggravating since, like you explained, their software isn't even good anymore. iBooks and macOS is just as bad, if not worse, which is something.