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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. Re:There will be no response by MightyYar · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't think they have to stream the MP3s - they could be using Safari's persistent storage.

    In any case, on my Android phone I use Subsonic and get decent battery life. Subsonic streams music from your home server, but in practice it spends a few seconds downloading each song and the data connection sleeps for most of the time you are listening. I also use Pandora and find it to be acceptable.

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