Apple Indirectly Helping Amazon With iBooks

Apple will not be shipping iPads with the iBooks application as a built-in app.To get the iBooks application, iPad users will have to download it themselves.This is the way Apple Indirectly Helping Amazon Kindle.If iBooks not included in iPad initially,If iPad users go searching for an ebook-reader and they are unaware Apple is connected to iBooks, consumers might download Amazon’s Kindle app, thus unintentionally boosting the Seattle-based online book-seller’s ebook market share.

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If you look at the iPad gallery,the only bundled apps included with the system seem to be Calendar, Contacts, Notes, Maps, Videos, YouTube, iTunes, App Store, Settings, Safari, Mail, Photos, and iPod.

But there is another view on this issue.Making iBooks an App Store download will allow Apple to update the app more often than if it were tied to OS updates.

But, this decision makes Apple more loss than gain.

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