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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".
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I am sorry if the reaction was stronger than it might have been. I still think however that the idea that buying Kindle is sometimes "almost an act of rebellion" is almost certainly false and it is false in almost every case of Kindle purchase.
Taking your example of shoes it is like if you were saying that buying CAT heavy duty boots is sometimes an act of rebellion against Nike running shoes. In some odd situations it might be true but for the most part it has nothing to do with it. Heavy duty boots are not for the same purposes as running shoes just as eInk readers are not for the same purposes as a tablet. I know a lot of people with eInk readers but none of them actually considered it as a replacement for iPad (or any other tablet for that matter) moreover a couple of them have both eInk and iPad, just like many readers here.
So buying Samsung Galaxy Tab might be rebellion against Apple and now Xoom also might be but Kindle? No way. Not to mention the other eInk readers like Nook and Kobo which are also not rebellion against Apple.
