WHY I HATE APPLE!

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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.