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Originally Posted by NatCh
It's interesting: Over half of the respondents (19 of 32) who purchased Kindles so far had some sort of dedicated reading device already, and most of them were Sony Readers. (15 of that 19). I also note that none of them had iLiads.
This suggests to me that Kindle has something very appealing to people which the Sony Reader lacks. Is it the keyboard? The EVDO wireless? Just the "new gadget" lust we all know so well? 
What is it that's drawing you to the Kindle over other devices? |
it's funny, isn't it? sony has the absolute worst reputation for lousy or non-existent support, drm, and dead-end devices, betamax and minidisc the first of many that spring to mind. remember the root-kit install with music cd's? so i wouldn't think any of the open-source, anti-drm crowd would buy from them at if they could avoid it.
otoh, i've been buying from amazon for years and have spent thousands there--mostly on media: books, cd's, dvd's &c and have had absolutely no bad experience with them. the very very few problems i've had they've solved quickly and to my absolute satisfaction.
i'm not saying this was the only factor in my decision to buy, but it was a large percent. coupled with the fact that i knew (know) for absolute certain they will let me return it w/o question within 30 days. which i haven't yet ruled out, btw.
/guy