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Originally Posted by Kitabi
I did not claim Amazon is evil so why the urge to prove Amazon is doing something good? I merely explained why proprietary formats are not good. Especially if a company can can get within striking distance of a monopoly or near monopoly position in it's industry.
I gave a very concrete example of MS Office to prove what can happen in such cases. Was MS Office a great product? Yes. Was MS very attentive to it's customers? Yes. Did the proprietariness of DOC, XLS and PPT formats cause problems later? Yes.
So, why such reassurance about the Kindle? A company with a dominant proprietary format will cause issues.
Anyway, I have long outstayed my welcome on this thread if there ever was one. Time to drop.
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I know exactly what you mean.
Unfortunately, there are people who can see a big picture, and others who can't, for whatever reasons, or won't, because they are mainly interested in confirmation that their choice was correct.