Apple is one of the largest companies in the world and the most valuable technology company in the world, having surpassed Microsoft. According to the NY Times, Apple has rejected Sony’s “Sony Reader’s” e-book app for inclusion in the IOS App Store.
Sony Reader is quiet similar to Apple’s own I-books and Amazon Kindle apps in that it would allow users to purchase and read books in the app, though Kindle does this through the web.
Apple portray that they rejected the application because they are not allowing developers to sell content with their applications, without going through the App Store’s actual in-app-purchase feature.
Recent change might be the signal of launching Apple’s rumored app subscription service. There is no word on whether or not Apple will begin removing applications such as the Amazon Kindle app, but if they did, there would most likely be an extreme backlash from successful developers like Amazon.
Source: 9To5mac
