Steve Jobs Gives Amazon An Ultimatum
John Gapper at Financial Times
The Kindle iPad app allows readers to buy books at the Kindle store through the iPad browser.
Apple is now presenting Amazon with a choice. Either it withdraws its iPad Kindle app or it allows Apple to take a 30 per cent cut of any Kindle e-book purchases on the iPad.
The Apple-Amazon standoff is intriguing because it involves two companies run by innovative, secretive, control freaks – Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos. Mr Besoz’s response will be one to savour.
I’m a user stuck in the middle of this. I much prefer the Kindle app to iBooks and I don’t want prices to go up 30% to compensate for Steve Jobs’ ego or his closed ecosystem.
(via mikehudack)
Steve Jobs Gives Amazon An Ultimatum
John Gapper at Financial Times
The Kindle iPad app allows readers to buy books at the Kindle store through the iPad browser.
Apple is now presenting Amazon with a choice. Either it withdraws its iPad Kindle app or it allows Apple to take a 30 per cent cut of any Kindle e-book purchases on the iPad.
The Apple-Amazon standoff is intriguing because it involves two companies run by innovative, secretive, control freaks – Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos. Mr Besoz’s response will be one to savour.
I’m a user stuck in the middle of this. I much prefer the Kindle app to iBooks and I don’t want prices to go up 30% to compensate for Steve Jobs’ ego or his closed ecosystem.
(via mikehudack)
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They already did!! http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000579091
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The thing is, Apple deserves a one-time cut for every new user it signs up. Because his system does indeed make it much...
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That’s kind of odd. If I use an iPad and I use Safari to purchase a Kindle book on Amazon.com. You’re saying I can’t do...
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I thought Jobs was on a “leave of absence”.
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