Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Sony Reader Banned from Apple App Store

Apple has rejected Sony’s Reader app from its App Store because it sells content within the app, and lets users access content that they purchased outside Apple’s own App Store, the New York Times reports.

Apple has told Sony that from now on all in-app purchases have to go through Apple. That's the downside of curation. On the other hand, few would quibble about a news stand, bookstore, cable network or radio or TV broadcaster selecting the content it wishes to carry, so long as the content is legal, tasteful and generally accurate. Okay, at least legal.

1 comment:

pilates arlington virginia said...

The Sony iPhone app attempts to handle purchases in exactly the same way as the Kindle and Nook apps. Of course Sony knew that they couldn't do direct in-app purchases and so they modelled their app after the ones that were already approved.

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