lowededwookie

Ofer said:

Will calibre import DRM-protected files?

There used to be a way back in the day but Amazon kept making things harder.

Also, if you want a free way to make your own ePub books, Sigil is a great app in partnership with Calibre.

goodbyeranch said:

lowededwookie said:

Even art galleries rotate pieces to remain fresh and vibrant.

That means pieces once popular may not remain so and thus get pulled out.

The developer is just lazy and expectant of people stumbling on their title and giving them money. The problem is that most users would look at when it was last updated and decide not to download.

I know I do.

Better analogy - Imagine there was only one officially sanctioned art gallery in the entire world. And the art they sold could only be installed on a certain type of wall sold and controlled by the art gallery - unless the government intervened at great expense to the public. And this art gallery threatened to pull works from sale unless the artist updated their painting every seven years to be compatible with an arbitrary built-in obsolescence of the old walls. The moral of the story is... analogies are stupid. The artist and Apple are at cross-purposes and both have valid points. But Apple has the power and the artist is "being difficult".

Except that's not a real life analogy is it. Apple makes the App Store and is 100% allowed to set the rules. It's no different to any art gallery, museum or whatever. So stop ragging on Apple who is doing no wrong. It's not like Apple is stopping you from running an Android phone and getting Android apps.

Your argument is facetious at best.

Even art galleries rotate pieces to remain fresh and vibrant.

That means pieces once popular may not remain so and thus get pulled out.

The developer is just lazy and expectant of people stumbling on their title and giving them money. The problem is that most users would look at when it was last updated and decide not to download.

I know I do.

I would like to see some of the old MobileMe features come back running on Apple servers.

I've wanted to start a podcast, but all the options on the table require someone else to be in control. And given that Apple has a number of rules for the RSS files it seems odd that one can't just self-host with MAMP and an RSS feed tool from Apple. But MobileMe used to host iWeb and iWeb allowed us to create Podcast webpages with ridiculous ease. I'd happily pay for this rather than deal with some third party.

God I miss iWeb. Yes it was limited but it was so easy to setup blogs and podcasts. It just sucked in terms of designs for your sites and getting commenting running.

I'd side with EU monopoly claims if the EU had companies that competed with Apple but they don't. They're just doing this because any companies they had that might compete, screwed the pooch and ended up in no-man's land... here's looking at you Nokia. And in all reality it was Microsoft NOT Apple that killed Nokia.

Linux doesn't even come anywhere close to macOS and there is no EU version of anything that competes with Android let alone iOS.

Maybe the EU should concentrate on solving this before raking Apple over the coals for making products that no one competes with. Through no fault of Apple's I might add.