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Originally Posted by HarryT
You've slightly lost me. In what way does buying a Reader in the UK break the EULA? (I live in the UK and have a Reader)
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Sorry, poorly worded on my part; I was referring to content from the Connect store, rather than the Reader itself; I'd mentally made that leap, but it didn't come across in the writing; I blame the beer, myself...
As I said, I don't have a Reader or access to Connect so haven't had the opportunity to study the EULA, which I presumed to be country or region-specific. If not, then fair enough, my mistake...
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The Reader has a switched-mode power supply which will happily work on any voltage from 100-250v. I honestly can't recall buying any portable device for years which has had an old-fashioned fixed-voltage power supply; can you?
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Yes, you're right; most mains adapters are now multi-voltage, so perhaps a bad choice of example - but I'm sure you understand the point I'm making with this Harry.
Apple at least gave fair warning that hacked iPhones may be damaged by the update, yet people still went ahead anyway.
And just out of interest, who's to say the next Sony software update won't brick the hacked Readers out there? The more I look at large companies (especially with closed systems) the less I find myself thinking "why would they do that?" - and more 'why wouldn't they do that?"