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Stephen Downes

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This is an odd one: Amazon.com has released new terms of service that prohibit any mobile applications from accessing its API. The suggestion is that this new restriction is intended to kill competition to SnapTell, recently acquired by Amazon. A large number of developers are upset, but you know, building a platform-sepcific app was one of the thing I recommended that you not build in the future.

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