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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. I want to see more of this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Apple designed this as an "alternative", albeit crippled alternative, to "Apps" from the very beginning. The Financial Times was the first major organization to challenge Apple's greedy little scheme by making their subscription a web-only affair, thus avoiding the 30% Apple usury. I have been disappointed that more people have not gone this route and I am certainly glad to see the Amazon has grown a set and gone that way.