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Apple blocks Sony Reader app

article published on 1 February, 2011

Apple has blocked Sony's e-book application from the App Store, saying it conflicts with Apple's system for managing the purchase of content. Sony's app would have allowed iPhone / iPad users to read books bought from the Sony store using the Apple devices. The company accused Apple of changing the way it enforces its rules in its decision not to allow it to offer the application through ... [ read the full article ]

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KillerBug
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_ 		2. February 2011 @ 00:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Oh Sony...my heart is breaking for you...because you are so super-open with your devices after all...like the PS3 where you are suing geohot simply for providing a method of installing 3rd party apps, or your laptops that have hardware virtualization disabled, or your cameras that only work with your crummy overpriced memory sticks.

I would say that Sony is getting a taste of their own medicine, but for that, Apple would have to be suing Sony, and this app would have to be non-profit.
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Ben79
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_ 		2. February 2011 @ 10:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Ha! Sony wants to run 3rd party apps on Crapple hardware! Apple said f-u!

This make me all giddy... and I hate Apple and Sony(recent).
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Frogfart
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_ 		3. February 2011 @ 05:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Nothing better than a good bitch fight! (I know its sexist)
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Jemborg
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_ 		3. February 2011 @ 08:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Works for Amazon but not Sony... and they claim that is not discriminating.

LOL Apple, you may have bitten off more than you can chew f*cking over Sony.



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