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.

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  1. ayumirui reblogged this from soupsoup
  2. electro-clarifier reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    Gives Amazon An Ultimatum
  3. codesarah reblogged this from joesunga and added:
    They already did!! http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000579091
  4. jogebauer reblogged this from mikehudack
  5. pegobry reblogged this from mikehudack and added:
    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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  7. joesunga reblogged this from peterwknox and added:
    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...
  8. jeanprytyskacz reblogged this from matthewknell
  9. borderlinephil reblogged this from pberntsen and added:
    Bezos will just introduce the Kindle ‘web app.’
  10. matthewknell reblogged this from stoplookliz and added:
    I thought Jobs was on a “leave of absence”.
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    now.. see more Gifs
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  17. peterwknox reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    This doesn’t make sense because Apple isn’t talking about ebooks purchased through the...-...
  18. sarahrain22 reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    Reason number 3848484848 why...world and need be stopped.
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  20. dentonmd reblogged this from mikehudack and added:
    WHY I HATE APPLE!
  21. mikehudack reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    I’m a user stuck in...middle of this. I much prefer...I...


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