Sentences with phrase «apple as middleman»

FT's move toward direct access cuts out Apple as middleman and highlights fight for control of lucrative consumer information.

Not exact matches

It was a smart move, because it let Apple take advantage of growing interest in disintermediation — the removal of traditional middlemen, such as retailers, from the buying and selling equation.

Or is it you publishers are just too cheap to invest some of that money you've scammed from authors over the years to build some infrastructure to sell direct to customers because you know that without a middleman such as Amazon and Apple, you will no longer be able to shield exactly how much you've scammed from authors by claiming the middleman took a big chunk of it?

So from ComiXology's perspective, having Apple in place as a middleman was a choice, not a requirement.

Plug it in and plug its Ethernet cable into your router, and it'll act as middleman between your WeMo gadgets and Apple HomeKit's iOS - and - Siri - based smart home controls.