{"id":7731,"date":"2013-08-27T16:36:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T21:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7731"},"modified":"2016-04-29T09:46:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T13:46:30","slug":"purchasing-from-the-kindle-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/27\/purchasing-from-the-kindle-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Purchasing From the Kindle App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/118293\/the-steve-jobs-email-exchange-that-perfectly-captures-apples-strategy\/\">Phil Schiller<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=6264780\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/118293\/the-steve-jobs-email-exchange-that-perfectly-captures-apples-strategy\/\"><p>I just watched a new Amazon Kindle app ad on TV. [&#8230;] While the primary message is that there are Kindle apps on lots of mobile devices, the secondary message that can&rsquo;t be missed is that it is easy to switch from iPhone to Android.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/118293\/the-steve-jobs-email-exchange-that-perfectly-captures-apples-strategy\/\">Steve Jobs<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/118293\/the-steve-jobs-email-exchange-that-perfectly-captures-apples-strategy\/\"><p>The first step might be to say they must use our payment system for everything, including books (triggered by the newspapers and magazines).<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Which is exactly what <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/15\/app-store-subscriptions\/\">they did<\/a>. This exchange makes it sound as though Apple&rsquo;s motivation was to limit users&rsquo; flexibility rather than making it easier for them to buy content (as some people had suggested at the time). However, I don&rsquo;t see how this makes actually makes it more difficult to switch to Android. I guess that&rsquo;s what iBooks is for.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Schiller (via Hacker News): I just watched a new Amazon Kindle app ad on TV. [&#8230;] While the primary message is that there are Kindle apps on lots of mobile devices, the secondary message that can&rsquo;t be missed is that it is easy to switch from iPhone to Android. Steve Jobs: The first step [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,91,38,93,31,165,1372,173],"class_list":["post-7731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-appstore","tag-apple","tag-ibooks","tag-ios","tag-kindle","tag-phil-schiller","tag-stevejobs"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14292,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions\/14292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}