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Old 05-14-2013, 01:00 PM   #19
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by theducks View Post
So the Big question is: "where are the anti-trust folk?"
Amazons control of some of major e-reader COMPONENTS provides them with a unfair RETAIL advantage.
Considering there are zero shipping devices using Liquavista and there likely won't be one for at least a year, they are probably more interested in the ongoing audits of the contracts of the conspiring BPHs.

You do realize there is no law anywhere on the planet against using proprietary components in products nor of building products solely out of proprietary products, no matter how much competitors or buyers of competing products might wish otherwise?

(Don't need to go any further than gaming consoles built off proprietary CPUs, GPUs, firmware, and even disk formats. Playstations, XBOXes, and Nintendos, are all strictly proprietary and proud of it.)

If Liquavista actually works in shipping products as demo'ed (enormous "if") and Amazon ships a magical ebook reader that everybody but an epub fanatic buys and Amazon ends up with 99% market share (unlikely as that may be), trustbusters the world over will just shrug. And probably buy one for themselves.

There are no magic bullets that will make Amazon vanish in a puff of smoke and brimstone. The only way to come even close to beating them is to build a better product at a better price with better distribution and better customer service.

In other words, the old-fashioned way: by hard work and earning it.

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