Apple going crazy ...

[BeVonk!]

See this: http://m.bgr.com/2012/07/30/amazon-banned-ibooks-store-apple/

Apple is losing it ... seriously. As a long-time fan of Apple when they were the underdogs I know stand amazed at how quickly the oppressed can turn into the oppressor once on top.

 

[BeVonk!]

Apple's control over - and protection of - their ecosystem is looking more and more like a fascist dictatorship where war is declared on anyone remotely threatening and censorship is used to control everything going out or coming in. Goebbels would have been a fan.

 

[Hamster]

FAIL!

 

[Freaksta]

Rather stupid....

 

[Dolby]

I'm sure JStrike and the others will be here shortly to defend everything in the article

 

[bwana]

Didn't apple get flack for the same thing earlier in the year?

 

[PsyWulf]

Didn't apple get flack for the same thing earlier in the year?

Wasn't that related to them banning the kindle app for allowing purchases that didn't filter through to apple?

 

[cerebus]

Are you talking about this incident bwana?

 

[LazyLion]

Did you guys read the comments at the bottom of the posted article?
It seems that there are plenty of other books in the Apple marketplace that reference Amazon and that this may just be some disgruntled woman having a go at Apple? Can anyone confirm? Are there books for sale at Apple that have reference to Amazon?

 

[BeVonk!]

Imagine Amazon banning Steve Jobs' biography because it promotes Apple ...

 

[BeVonk!]

Did you guys read the comments at the bottom of the posted article?
It seems that there are plenty of other books in the Apple marketplace that reference Amazon and that this may just be some disgruntled woman having a go at Apple? Can anyone confirm? Are there books for sale at Apple that have reference to Amazon?

From her comments I don't get the idea she's just having a go at Apple. She seems genuinely shocked.

 

[undesign]

From her comments I don't get the idea she's just having a go at Apple. She seems genuinely shocked.

As opposed to "not genuinely being shocked" if it was a PR stunt?

 

[LazyLion]

From her comments I don't get the idea she's just having a go at Apple. She seems genuinely shocked.

Ja, but my question is... are there other books available that reference Amazon? If there are then that certainly blows her comments out of the water, and from what some people are saying it is pretty easy to find books that reference Amazon.

 

[BeVonk!]

Ja, but my question is... are there other books available that reference Amazon? If there are then that certainly blows her comments out of the water, and from what some people are saying it is pretty easy to find books that reference Amazon.

The context is the issue. She's writing a guide to assist writers to market their books (it seems) and she used Amazon as example. Her Generaloberapfel said no.

 

[LazyLion]

The context is the issue. She's writing a guide to assist writers to market their books (it seems) and she used Amazon as example. Her Generaloberapfel said no.

Ah, OK... that makes a bit more sense then. Besides it is possible Apple would not pull books that are way more popular and would be way more noticeable (like Jeff Bezos Autobiography), but they would consider messing around with a virtual unknown in the hopes nobody would notice.

 

[BeVonk!]

Instead of rejecting they could have been more helpful and offered info for inclusion on how to publish using iBooks also.

 

[BeVonk!]

I'm not liking what I'm seeing. Apple designs and manufactures awesome devices. I am a huge fan of the work of Sir Jonny Ives. Woz is The Man! But the Apple of today is everything Woz is not. That happens as companies evolve. But evolution turned a butterfly into an aggressive hornet.