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Steve Jobs Gives Amazon An Ultimatum

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John Gapper at Financial Times

The Kindle iPad app allows readers to buy books at the Kindle store through the iPad browser.

Apple is now presenting Amazon with a choice. Either it withdraws its iPad Kindle app or it allows Apple to take a 30 per cent cut of any Kindle e-book purchases on the iPad.

The Apple-Amazon standoff is intriguing because it involves two companies run by innovative, secretive, control freaks – Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos. Mr Besoz’s response will be one to savour.

ugh.

I thought Jobs was on a “leave of absence”.