E-book and e-reader seller Kobo is formulation an HTML5 web app to alternative route Apple's ultimate restrictions on its iOS devices. In the final couple of days, Kobo's iOS app, along with Amazon's Kindle app and Barnes Noble's Nook app have all been forced to eliminate links to their online e-book stores.
This is in reply to Apple's order that bans apps from permitting access to sell channels other than its own in-app buy option, of that Apple takes a 30% cut.
The order creates things worse for users. You or we might know that we can go to the Kobo, Amazon or BN websites to buy new books, and that they will then uncover up in their particular apps. But e-books are a marketplace moreover renouned with periodic people, and they need all the tech-help they can get.
Kobo's reply is to make a web-based e-reader app available. This will run in a browser (or a browser-powered view) and is thus free from any App Store restrictions. It will moreover run in any HTML5-compatible browser, not only Safari on iOS.
It seems similar to a great solution, but for a thing. Nobody but nerds setup web-apps. Auntie May is going to obtain her Kobo reader from a place - the App Store. And us nerds won't worry either, as we're the ones who already know how to buy books from our browsers.
Web apps are great for Apple. They're a way is to firm to forgive its limiting App Store terms. But web apps will never be as renouned as local ones, and Apple knows it.
Kobo Developing HTML5 eReading Web App to Serve iOS Users [Press let go / Reuters]
Changes from Apple affects Kobo's iPhone/iPad App [Kobo]
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