Comments on: Amazon Spits Delicious Library for iPhone Out of App Store

By: j

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:11:41 +0000

Can you download it from anywhere on the web?

By: Izzy

Izzy — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:35:01 +0000

This is no good, we have all been waiting for DL app for a while and now this

I already hav it and I guess it's better than nothing. But we will not get any updates and can't get bugs fixed, so it may end up being unusable as iPhone OS gets upgraded.

Solution, just As amazon bought Stanza, it should have bought DM. It's a great fit and DL already sends users to amzn if they want to buy items in their lib. Or related items. Also DL is beautifully done and well designed and has a nice brand that can be built on. An acquisition seems like a great way to go about it.

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:55:58 +0000

Neil, these conditions are new, since DL came out so Wil Shipley is in no way to blame for not reading the terms.

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:28:42 +0000

I don't see this as "stumbling around" or them being evil, they no doubt wrote that paragraph into their terms and conditions for a reason. If Wil Shipley choose to not read the terms carefully or ignore the terms that is not Amazon's fault....not need to always make out the big companies always the bad guys.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:41:37 +0000

Mike, the problem which this is DL on the iPhone is not using the Amazon API. It syncs the data directly from DL on your Mac, which uses the API to get data.

Amazon are saying you can not use data obtained with the API on a mobile device, not just that you can't use the API.

By: Raul

Raul — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:45:24 +0000

By: grace

grace — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:27:40 +0000

glad i finally downloaded this just last week or so. i'd been meaning to for quite a while.

By: D

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:15:27 +0000

Wow I can't believe mike overbo actually chimed in on this one I actually believed he became a silent partner or something

By: Matt Sawyers (msbaylor)

Matt Sawyers (msbaylor) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:51:10 +0000

I hate to say this... but what about Pocketpedia??? It also utilizes Amazon's mobile API.... I guess go & grab that one now...

By: Mike Scott

Mike Scott — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:21:41 +0000

One doesn't have to assume that big corporations are either stupid or evil. I suspect that Amazon doesn't have mobile phone rights to some of the functionality available through their API -- selling MP3s, perhaps -- and so they can't allow the API to be accessed from mobile devices.

By: Gary LaPointe

Gary LaPointe — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:39:21 +0000

Wow. I'm sure glad I downloaded it when I did. The app for the iPhone is what actually made me start using Delicious on my Mac (I purchased it a few months ago).

Idiotic, it's okay for the desktop but not the handheld?

Well, it is their API and data, so they should get to do what they want with it....

By: KORG

KORG — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:34:10 +0000

Make this a twitter trend!!!

By: Mike Overbo

Mike Overbo — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:05:15 +0000

well, it's amazon... they want to flog the kindle...

my vote is for stumbling.