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That's frustrating. Especially since the Kindle app falls under the category of "paid content is available, but no references are available in-app".

With all of the great improvements Apple has made to the App Store submission process, it's frustrating there's still such inconsistency and so few ways to speak with someone reasonable. From what I hear the review team is busting their asses off, but it's still frustrating (and a bit baffling) for something that represents such a large part of the success of iOS.

It's easier to pick on prey than it is to pick on amazon, large companies in general are bullies but apple especially, watching continuous slow motion train wrecks like this makes my stomach turn. But hey, that's the way the world goes I guess.

I honestly think it's one of those Yahoo/Facebook-type deals. If Apple tries to frivilously deny Amazon's app, they risk pissing off the dominant player in the ebook market, who could sue for all kinds of random things relating to iBooks. Prey lacks that leverage.

Exactly, so as I said originally, Prey is a much easier target than amazon. Also more people would be actively angry they couldn't read their books on an apple device than would be angry they couldn't use prey on their apple device.

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