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Amazon Sidesteps App Store Business Model, Plays Back MP3s From Safari

Posted by timothy on from the cutting-out-the-apple-man dept.

Press2ToContinue writes "Amazon has found a simple way around Apple's tight-fisted App Store rules: give users a web app to buy MP3s that runs in Safari. This way, they have no need to pay 30% per tune to Apple. Freedom of choice of vendor in Apple-only territory? Is this a big breach of Apple's walled garden? I wonder if Apple with have a response to this."

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  1. 2 things by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    1) As an iPhone customer, this is not appealing. Can I dock my phone in our car and control it through the steering wheel controls? nope. Can I dock my phone in the speaker on the kitchen counter and control it through the buttons on top of the speakers? Nope. Can I listen to music and play Field Runners 2? Nope. Sorry, but the few cents of savings are not worth the hassle.

    2) "Is this a big breach of Apple's walled garden?" What sensationalizing asshat even had the balls to post that?