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Originally Posted by adamengst
It's so much fun seeing one talked about in public.
First off, I think people are reading WAY too much into my statement. I said:
> One thing that I think is potentially helping the Kindle is that Apple has become so large and so dominant that buying a Kindle is almost an act of rebellion.
Note the words "I think" and "potentially" and "almost". I'm not stating this as a fact, I'm proposing it as a possibility, as something that might be true in some cases. In fact, I'm pretty sure it is true in some cases, but it would be madness to suggest that it's true in all cases, or even in a majority of cases. If you're all really interested, we can explore the question of why people buy one device over another, but I don't think there's any argument that not all people make fully rational decisions all the time. Sometimes they just like one thing more than another, or have a good or bad association. I don't wear or buy Nike running shoes, for instance, and while I can make up various rational justifications for why, the fact is that I'm not a big fan of Nike and buying other brands of running shoes is a small personal rebellion about how big and powerful Nike has become.
It's true I'm not a big fan of the Kindle. I have a Kindle 1 and a Kindle DX, and they sit on my floor unused until I need to test something on them, at which point I generally become fairly frustrated with them since I find the Kindle interface opaque. I'm sure that's in large part because I use them infrequently, but I could also make a point-by-point criticism of the Kindle on usability grounds.
Everything is more complicated than it seems, and there are always more than two sides to every argument (which I learned in Carl Sagan's seminar in critical thinking when I was an undergrad at Cornell many years ago). But it's not always possible, in the time and space available, to present and explore every possibility. When it comes right down to it, I was asked those interview questions by an online friend and I hadn't replied as promptly as I would have liked, so I was writing quickly in an effort to get the message out of my Inbox. And because the guy's a friend with a blog (as opposed to, say, the Washington Post), I wasn't thinking as carefully as I might about my wording. So it goes.
cheers... -Adam
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ahaha, sorry Adam. I really was more interested in sharing your experiences with the iBooks submittal process and DRM, hence what I quoted...but I should have known better
