{"id":4600,"date":"2010-02-03T10:22:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4600"},"modified":"2010-02-03T10:22:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T15:22:18","slug":"apple-gets-controlling-my-ipad-way-or-the-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4600","title":{"rendered":"Apple Gets Controlling &#8211; My iPad Way or the Highway!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move reminiscent of Amazon&#8217;s most despotic market machination, Apple has ordered <strong>Lexcycle<\/strong> to disable its hit App <strong>Stanza&#8217;s<\/strong> ability to share files via the USB cable.<\/p>\n<p>Read the story at <strong><a title=\"iPad or the Highway!\" href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2010\/02\/02\/apple-makes-developer-remove-usb-sharing-from-stanza-iphone-app\/\" target=\"_self\">VentureBeat<\/a><\/strong>. Conspiracy theorists whisper that it&#8217;s another step in Apple&#8217;s attempt to isolate its iPad and iPhone from the competition.\u00c2\u00a0 (The USB hookup would allow individuals to use non-iBook titles&#8230;so&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Amazon owns Stanza, so definitely, it&#8217;s a turf issue.\u00c2\u00a0Sadly, a move like this is\u00c2\u00a0confirmation\u00c2\u00a0that Apple wants iPad to interface\u00c2\u00a0with iBooks alone. (At least until the hackers give it what for, <em>yah<\/em>?)<\/p>\n<p>Come <strong>Apple<\/strong>, you know it&#8217;s all about content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move reminiscent of Amazon&#8217;s most despotic market machination, Apple has ordered Lexcycle to disable its hit App Stanza&#8217;s ability to share files via the USB cable. Read the story at VentureBeat. Conspiracy theorists whisper that it&#8217;s another step in Apple&#8217;s attempt to isolate its iPad and iPhone from the competition.\u00c2\u00a0 (The USB hookup &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4600\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4600"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4607,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions\/4607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}