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		fpgeek on Feb 16, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mountain Lion: John Gruber's personal briefing > Apple's pattern with iOS has actually been one of slowly opening up. Tell that to Amazon or Barnes & Noble or Netflix or Hulu or anyone else burned by the In-App Purchase mess. I'd bet none of them would say Apple's pattern has been to open up iOS.

Tyrannosaurs on Feb 16, 2012 [–]

I should possibly have been clearer - from the perspective of software development.

Even with those three it's not closed. I read Kindle books on my iPhone (and use iBooks as nothing more the a PDF reader as it goes), just the purchasing model isn't as streamlined as Amazon would like.

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