iBooks is not a built-in app.
iBooks is not a built in app.
iBooks is not a built in App,
iBooks isn't a built-in app.
Alright, already!!!
iBooks is not a built-in app.
iBooks is not a built in app.
iBooks is not a built in App,
iBooks isn't a built-in app.
Allowing the Kindle app will make it more likely that I'll buy an iPad. My wife already has a Kindle, so there's no way I'd be buying books through the iPad bookstore. There aren't that many applications where the large screen of an iPad makes it preferential to, say, an iPod Touch; but reading electronic books is certainly the most obvious benefit of the larger screen.
I expect Apple will approve it; however I can see why some people here don't believe that to be the case.
Sounds pretty cool but also just sounds like ibooks. Hopefully someone gets the content presentation right as well as a universal file type.
Why should Apple allow the Kindle App on the iPhone? They are a competitor. Will the new Kindle store with Apps Allow the Apple ebook reader? Can you purchase music via iTunes on Amazon? The answers are all self evident.
Wow I never predicted this from the moment Apple announced the iPad and that iBook's would be USA only.
By the time they get their fingers out and sort out licensing in Europe, Canada, Australia etc... (assuming it takes as long as itunes, or missing movie content) then most of the world who want 'ebook's will be using Kindle or some other application and there will be no need for the iBook store at all.
No, they're not. Amazon leads the market and Apple is not even yet a player in the field.
If Apple wants people who read eBooks to accept the iPad, they have to make sure that they can at least read their already purchased library on the device. Or offer them some crossgrades (which certainly is not going to happen).
So the only smart thing for Apple to do is to allow the Kindle app on the iPad.
It will be very hard for Apple to build a book store that can compete with Amazon. This is a different game than selling music files, and it is a game where Apple has zero experience. Amazon is the giant in the book market, and it is a giant customers are extraordinarily happy with, because Amazon is doing so many things right.
Oh. And Amazon is not arrogant. Apple is.
Because Apple want to sell hardware. I'm not remotely interested in buying the hardware as an eBook reader if they start playing games with other people's content.
dzoolander said:Why should Apple allow the Kindle App on the iPhone? They are a competitor. Will the new Kindle store with Apps Allow the Apple ebook reader? Can you purchase music via iTunes on Amazon? The answers are all self evident.
scoobydoo99 said:Because Apple want to sell hardware. I'm not remotely interested in buying the hardware as an eBook reader if they start playing games with other people's content.
you imply some sort of focus on hardware vs. content. if that's what you meant, you are incorrect. the hardware is simply the means of selling more content. so, NO, Apple NOT want to sell hardware, Apple want to sell CONTENT.
How is Apple "playing games with other people's content" by choosing NOT to sell it on their system?!? Is Microsoft "playing games" with Apple's content by not selling iTunes media through Media Player??![]()
iBooks is not a built-in app. To be sure it's Apple's preferred way for people to read books on it, but there are at least 2 reasons I see for Apple not to block the Kindle and B&N apps.
1. It's one more reason for Kindle and Nook owners to buy an iPad. You can read all your kindle books on it!
2. If it's between selling additional ebooks or selling additional iPads, Apple would most likely prefer to see the latter occur.
you imply some sort of focus on hardware vs. content. if that's what you meant, you are incorrect. the hardware is simply the means of selling more content. so, NO, Apple NOT want to sell hardware, Apple want to sell CONTENT.
How is Apple "playing games with other people's content" by choosing NOT to sell it on their system?!? Is Microsoft "playing games" with Apple's content by not selling iTunes media through Media Player??![]()
Apple has rejected apps for duplicating the functionality of the built-in apps. Kindle on iPhone/Touch doesn't overlap anything, but it would overlap iBooks on the iPad.
You and other people like you are precisely the reason Apple will allow this application and others on iPad. The "allowing kindle books on iPad will make it more likely for me to buy an iPad" reason.
Amazon's not in it to sell Kindles, they are in it to sell books. Apple is not in it to sell ebooks, they are in it to sell devices.