[Marseille]

And evil and Amazon and evil Google and evil Microsoft. Companies aren't good or bad, they're profit-centered. Every company has used DRM in exactly the same way Apple did, albeit less successfully -- using the ruse of piracy to lock down paying consumers into their ecosystem. If you want to write off 20 years worth of patterns of DRM usage because you think I'm a fanboy or anti-fanboy.

Weirdly, you seem to have entirely missed the point that what Apple ultimately did was a positive market force that I had hoped Amazon would repeat before the ebook market got all splintered again. If you can't stomach one not entirely positive statement about Apple, that says more about what you "know", than it does about me.