Apple requires the removal of functionality from e-book app
It has now emerged that the developers behind the popular e-book app for iPhone, Stanza, has had a small talk with Apple, which has meant that they had to remove a significant functionality from their app.
It turns out that the possibility of transferring books from eReader epub and via a USB cable for iPhone has been removed in the latest update of the Stanza application.
At TechCrunch you were surprised at the update and after a number of users on the application’s site had complained that Apple had a hand in the game, took TechCrunch even catch Lexcycle that really enough to tell that it was Apple, which had asked them to remove the USB functionality, but that it was forbidden them to speak in detail about it.
Apple has previously been accused of being incredibly controlling to external applications for their products. A debate which will now have added new fuel to the fire with the above e-book application, after it again flared up in connection with Apple’s refusal of the addition of Flash to the iPhone OS and thus also their new product IPAD.
The question is whether it is Apple that is too controlling, or whether it’s OK that they determine what can and can not be available for their own platform.
