Thread: If Amazon Were Microsoft, Would Kindle 2 Policies Be Tolerated?
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Old 05-19-2009, 06:34 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by Mitchll View Post
Microsoft is in a monopoly position, with a headlock on the market. Amazon is a company with many competitors, who by no means controls the market. If you don't like Amazon's practices, or their prices, you can go elsewhere.
Not exactly true... I don't like owning a Kindle, but that also prohibits me from getting books from their site. So, if I want to make use of their books, I must use their device while my device would be as capable to read those books as their device.
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