Comments on: What Do You Think of Apple’s Treatment of Kindle & Other Book Readers on the App Store? https://isource.com/2011/07/27/what-do-you-think-of-apples-treatment-of-kindle-other-book-readers-on-the-app-store/ #1 Source for iPad, iPhone, iPod, Mac and AppleTV Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:00:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.6 By: John https://isource.com/2011/07/27/what-do-you-think-of-apples-treatment-of-kindle-other-book-readers-on-the-app-store/#comment-37904 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:00:53 +0000 http://isource.com/2011/07/27/what-do-you-think-of-apples-treatment-of-kindle-other-book-readers-on-the-app-store/#comment-37904 Total storm in a teacup. The Kindle app NEVER offered “quick in-app purchases”, it always just took you to Safari where you had to browse the mobile Amazon site, and you had to buy your books there. Or from your desktop, and click to send them to a particular Kindle-toting device.

NOTHING has changed in the system used to buy books. The only thing gone is a button which opened Safari for you. I can’t believe the noise being made over this utterly inconsequential change.

If you buy Kindle books, you are still able to read them on your iOS devices. End of story. Not many other hardware manufacturers allow competing commercial platforms a look-in.

]]> By: Judy https://isource.com/2011/07/27/what-do-you-think-of-apples-treatment-of-kindle-other-book-readers-on-the-app-store/#comment-37892 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 01:08:53 +0000 http://isource.com/2011/07/27/what-do-you-think-of-apples-treatment-of-kindle-other-book-readers-on-the-app-store/#comment-37892 Apple is placing itself in the position that it used to accuse Microsoft of taking. For those of us that thought Apple was something special, we’re rethinking.

]]> By: Jeff https://isource.com/2011/07/27/what-do-you-think-of-apples-treatment-of-kindle-other-book-readers-on-the-app-store/#comment-37886 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:44:23 +0000 http://isource.com/2011/07/27/what-do-you-think-of-apples-treatment-of-kindle-other-book-readers-on-the-app-store/#comment-37886 Apple doesn’t seem to understand that this is about iBooks’ lack of content. This will be an irritant to some consumers, but most Kindle users in particular are probably already used to buying their books two other ways anyway (on Kindle and on the web). Besides, all you really have to do is bookmark the mobile Kindle store anyway.

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