This is a trojan horse PR move to expose Apple's longstanding "customer confusion" argument for excluding competitive products (think Amazon MP3 downloads) from the App Store.
If what Apple has been doing for years is legal, so is this, and Apple can't complain without exposing complete hypocrisy.
In my view, Amazon wants to be forced back from this position in a precedent-setting way. This is Jeff Bezos's long-shot attempt to finally tear down the wall of Apple's closed marketplace.
If what Apple has been doing for years is legal, so is this, and Apple can't complain without exposing complete hypocrisy.
In my view, Amazon wants to be forced back from this position in a precedent-setting way. This is Jeff Bezos's long-shot attempt to finally tear down the wall of Apple's closed marketplace.