Great piece from Iain Broome on the simplicity of the Mac App Store, the bloat of the iTunes store, and the potential of iBookstore.<\/p>\n

I think we’re all agreed that iTunes is getting more bloated by the minute. But that’s because iTunes houses and plays<\/em> all our media, is the best way to buy and download<\/em> new media, and is the only place to sync<\/em> that media to our iDevices. That is a lot for what started out as an MP3 player, but I would rather have a bit of bloat than a lot of de-centralization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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