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Old 05-16-2011, 12:41 AM   #102
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Originally Posted by elcreative View Post
It is not as clear as you think, there have been numerous posts on MR from Kindle owners asking why their downloaded book was unreadable on the Kindle as they didn't realise that the Kindle used a proprietary DRMd format and they couldn't use other DRMd formats directly... they didn't know about multiple formats and thought that because a Kindle was an eReader, it would let them read all eBooks. I agree that if people looked into it a little more carefully then it is pretty clear but not everyone does that...
That's because people are .... not very knowledgeable about even the slightest technical issue (to put it nicely). Back in the 8-bit days everything was an "Atari." It didn't matter who made it, if it played video games it was an Atari. And people would complain that they couldn't play their Mattel games in their Atari 2600, after all they were both Ataris.

Some people can't be bothered to learn anything, at all, and it's their own fault when issues like this crop up.
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