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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[What Apple's latest rules change means for Kindle, Nook, and Kobo e-reader apps]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With Apple&amp;39's latest rules change, it now looks like e-reading apps won&amp;39't have to be removed from the App Store.(Credit:Screenshot by David Carnoy/CNET)Apple giveth and Apple taketh away.Today, Apple decided to give a little, as it made some significant tweaks to its in-app subscription rules that impact the fate of e-reader apps.Apple had reportedly set a deadline of June 30 for developers to alter their apps to reflect the new terms for subscriptions in the Apple Store, which required companies to give Apple a 30 percent cut on sales their apps generate.In the past, e-reading apps Kindle, Nook, and Kobo have avoided paying the cut by sending customers to a Web-based interface outside the app. When Apple issued its App Store subscription rules last February, however, it made conditions far stricter. The company would require third-party developers to sell any available content from within the app--sales from which siphon Apple's standard 30 percent commission that it was otherwise not receiving from the Web-based purchases. Moreover, the vendors couldn't raise the in-app version of the price to help defer the money they'd now owe to Apple--the rules further stipulated that the in-app price must be at &quot;the same price or less than it is offered outside the app.&quot; In other words, the vendor--Amazon, Barnes &amp; Noble, and so forth--would need to sacrifice 30 percent of all sales (and subscription) transactions, effectively requiring them to sell at a loss. (The February changes were due to take effect on June 30.)As one angry developer of the iFlow Reader app noted as his company went out of business, Apple's new rules were impossible to comply with for many companies and that Apple was basically sending an &quot;eviction notice&quot; to digital book sellers. However, Apple's latest amendment to its in-app subscription rules appears to have loosened the noose up while still choking off sales. Let's start with the old rules:11.13 Apps can read or play approved content (magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, video) that is sold outside of the app, for which Apple will not receive any portion of the revenues, provided that the same content is also offered in the app using IAP [in-app purchase] at the same price or less than it is offered outside the app. This applies to both purchased content and subscriptions. Now here are the new updated rules:11.13 Apps that link to external mechanisms for purchases or subscriptions to be used in the app, such as a &quot;buy&quot; button that goes to a web site to purchase a digital book, will be rejected.11.14 Apps can read or play approved content (specifically magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, and video) that is subscribed to or purchased outside of the app, as long as there is no button or external link in the app to purchase the approved content. Apple will not receive any portion of the revenues for approved content that is subscribed to or purchased outside of the app.As it stands, you currently can't buy e-books from the Kindle, Nook, and Kobo apps, anyway. Instead, they have a single &quot;shop for books&quot; button that boots up theSafari Web browser, where you can purchase what you please from Amazon, Barnes &amp; Noble, and Kobo. According to the new rules, that shopping button will no longer exist. In other words, there can't be any link out to a non-Apple store on the Web. You will, however, be able to read any e-books that you've purchased directly from those e-bookstores. Translation: The Kindle, Nook, and Kobo apps will simply become e-reading apps that will allow you to sync your digital libraries across devices. It looks like the &amp;39'Shop in the Kindle Store&amp;39' button will be going away in both the iPad and iPhone Kindle apps.(Credit:Screenshot by David Carnoy/CNET)Using the Kindle app andiPad as an example, now instead of accessing the Kindle Store by clicking the &quot;Shop in Kindle Store&quot; in the top right corner of the home page in the app, you'll have to manually open the Safari browser, buy an e-book, then return to the Kindle app to retrieve that purchase by resyncing your account. It's one extra step, but not the end of the world.When you buy an e-book in the Kindle Store online (on Amazon's Web site) from your computer, you're given the choice of sending the e-book to whatever Kindle-enabled device you've linked to your Amazon account. One would think that you'd still be able to send content to, say, your iPad, but we haven't been able to confirm that with Amazon. (We put out e-mails to all three companies but have yet to hear back about the rules change and what it means to their apps).The long and short of it is while you can expect some changes (we don't know exactly when those changes will happen, but as we said, Apple's original deadline was June 30), if you use an e-reader app on your iOS device, you'll be able to continue accessing your library and presumably update it. But it also appears that Apple's iBooks will be the only e-reader app that will have shopping links in the app.Can this all change tomorrow Sure. Apple could go ahead and update its rules again. And there's little bit of ambiguity in the phrase, &quot;Apps can read or play approved content,&quot; which leaves the door open for Apple to reject certain content for failing to living up to Apple's rules.For now, though, it seems that at least Apple has softened up just enough to avert what probably would have resulted in serious backlash from its users.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dell spurns U.S. in launch of Android tablet in China]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=dell-spurns-u-s--in-launch-of-android-tablet-in-china</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>hyperkaraoke</dc:creator>
<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
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<description><![CDATA[To date, Dell has launched smaller tablets in the U.S. that don&amp;39't compete directly with the iPad.(Credit:Dell)Dell will launch its highly anticipated 10-inchtablet in the Chinese market first, based on a emerging belief that the U.S. market isn't mature enough for a successfulAndroid launch, Dell executives told CNET today. Dell's Streak 10 Pro (see specifications below) will launch in China this summer and in the U.S. market probably sometime next year, John Thode, a Dell vice president and manager of Dell's mobility business, told CNET. The U.S. market simply doesn't offer a viable 10-inch tablet strategy for Dell, he said. &quot;This is not an either-or for us. This is a choice about where is the best place to take our story and avoids a bunch of the inhibitors and barriers to success that we've seen in the U.S. market,&quot; Thode said. &quot;Things like confusion over what exactly Android is bringing to the table [and] an immature platform and roll out of devices that weren't quite ready yet.&quot; Dell markets smaller tablets, such as the Dell Streak 7, and a hybrid product, the Inspiron Duo, in the U.S. but has yet to launch a tablet design that rivals the 9.7-inchiPad from Apple.  &quot;China is the largest in the emerging market category and the second fastest-growing in the emerging market category. And China is also our second largest market right after the U.S.,&quot; said Amit Midha, chairman of Dell Greater China. &quot;The China market in units may cross the U.S. in the next couple of years,&quot; he said, underscoring the importance of the market to Dell.  There are roughly 10,000 stores that sell Dell products in China and, by the end of the this year, there will be 2,000 service centers where customers can bring Dell products, Midha said.  Current stable of Dell tablets. Dell will launch its 10-inch competitor to Apple&amp;39's iPad in China first, citing &amp;39'barriers and inhibitors&amp;39' in the U.S. and &amp;39'upside-down&amp;39' pricing at U.S. carriers. (Credit:Dell) Thode also cited problems at U.S. carriers. &quot;Even simple things like distribution channels that are controlled by the carriers with pricing models that are completely upside down to adoption [of a tablet],&quot; he said about the U.S. market.  He continued. &quot;We looked at all of that and we said, well wait a minute, that instead of trying to swim upstream let's go someplace where the growth rates are much more interesting, the adoption rates are much faster, the consumer is much more savvy...it became one of those aha moments,&quot; he said, again speaking to the myriad problems in the U.S. Android tablet market.  This sentiment echoes recent criticism of Android tablet launches by Nvidia's chief executive. Tablets other than the iPad have, so far, not sold well in the U.S. for many of the reasons cited by Thode.  The Dell Streak 10 is Dell's third tablet product and its first 10-inch Android-based tablet.  Some of the salient specifications of the full Google Honeycomb Android tablet are: a thickness of 12 millimeters, a weight of about 700 grams, edge-to-edge glass, a 1280-by-800 screen, front and rear facing cameras (including a 5 megapixel camera), full 1080p video playback, an SD slot, and an Nvidia Tegra dual-core processor.  The tablet can also be purchased with a dock that has multiple USB ports, a USB host mode that allows PC-like emulation capabilities, HDMI video, the ability to run separate Citrix sessions on external monitors, and an Ethernet port, among other features. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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