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Originally Posted by fjtorres
I find amusing the constant carping about the Kindle line's lack of epub, library, and ADE support; as if that were some kind of failing. It isn't. It is a design *feature*. Kindle readers and apps exist, first and foremost, to sell Amazon ebooks; not to meet the needs of readers whose appetite for content exceeds ther willingness to pay (to put it kindly). Making a good reader that sells at a good price is a means to an end, not an end unto itself.
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It certainly
is a failing of the Kindle device, from a consumer point of view. Anything that your product is inferior at, compared to the competitors' products, is a failing. It may be intentional, and it may be designed to boost sales of another another product (i.e. ebooks), and it may even be successful at it. But that doesn't mean it isn't a failing of the product being sold.
The Nook's shorter battery life isn't a feature - it's a failing, plain and simple. It's a failing caused in part by a design decision to have a color touch screen, which is a feature, but it's still a failing of the Nook. Just as Amazon's decision not to support epubs and library lending. You can claim that it's a sound business decision on Amazon's part, but it is still a failing of the Kindle product.