"A conspiracy theorist might think that's Apple's plan. Their iBookstore ; most iPad/iPhone/iPod owners , and nobody else can buy from iBookstore."

So, the bottom line is that Apple is either going to get to financially squeeze the publishers and the booksellers and, as a consequence, squeeze the users of iOS devices, or they get to "" the user base by making their bookstore the only game in the Appleverse.

Either way, today there's little about Apple that "thinks different." It's the same old corporate greed that every company that dominates a market winds up embracing.

Gibbs loves hating Apple in Ventura, Calif. Your emotional conflict to backspin@gibbs.com.

in Network World's Data Center section.