At the time, people were wondering what this meant for the Kindle app. There's rumblings that Apple would place the same restrictions on Amazon, saying that they had to sell their books through the app only (currently the app opens to the Amazon's site, I believe), they would give Apple a 30% cut, and Amazon wouldn't be allowed to sell their books in their iOS app for more than they did elsewhere.
I doubt this will have an effect on the Kindle app. For buying books, the Kindle app hands the task off to Safari. You don't even have to start the Kindle app to buy a book. Hardware Kindles have the same kind of division of labor.
The Kindle app only pulls books from your Amazon digital library. Apple would really be pushing it to generate revenue at that point.
However, the iOS Kindle app, from the beginning, has never been allowed receive subscriptions to mag's. or newspapers.
Don't know if this means that Amazon was aware this was in the works, and chose not to play, or if it was some other happenstance preventing them from offering mags and news.
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