Archive for February 2012
Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: Safari 5.2 gets a simplified user interface with new sharing features
Safari gets a minor overhaul in this summer’s release of OS X Mountain Lion, offering a cleaner, smarter user interface with a unified search and location field and new sharing features.
An updated version of the Apple Store iOS app rolled out on Wednesday, bringing with it a number of new features including iPhone carrier selection for new customers as well as a feature that allows users to change account preferences.
The Mobile World Congress on Tuesday announced the winners of the 17th Annual Global Mobile Awards, with Samsung dubbed Manufacturer of the Year for its Galaxy S II Smartphone of the Year, while Apple’s iPad 2 took home Tablet of the Year honors.
Apple rejects iBook with links to Amazon’s store
This is just one specific case out of the many, many organizations and individuals publishing content on Apple’s iBookstore, but it’s an interesting call by Apple nevertheless. Seth Godin tried to publish a book of his through Apple’s iBooks, but the content was rejected by Apple’s system. Not because it was offensive in some way, but simply because it contained links to Amazon’s booksore. These weren’t even links to Godin’s books — they were simply links to reference books, but because they went out to a competing service, Apple pulled the plug.
Before anyone starts yelling about censorship, keep in mind that this is Apple’s playground, and it can take its ball home whenever it wants, no matter how inane the reason. But this reason seems particularly inane — Apple can’t really be worried about one link in a ebook promoting a competitor’s sales, right? Not to mention that the book in question was a hardcover copy, and unless I’m mistaken, wasn’t even sold on Apple’s iBooks store anyway.
Apple’s staked a claim to be at the center of technology and creativity, and of course it’s done plenty to cement a spot for itself there. But education and information are a key part of creativity, and if Apple is openly choosing to shut down certain purchases on its stores just for the petty reason of trying to keep one or two sales away from a (sort of) competitor, that’s a mistake.
[via AppAdvice]
Apple rejects iBook with links to Amazon’s store originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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