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Old 06-07-2011, 09:05 AM   #21
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I'm shocked and saddened to hear such whining from a tech editor. The lock-in he's talking about is a phenomenon that's decades old (at least), and something every tech-savvy consumer understands before they own a device. Back in the early days of MP3 players, you were locked to a device when you bought DRM'd music. Before that, you were locked to Mac software if you bought a Mac (before Macs could run Windows software). Before that, you were locked into Beta format if you opted for that instead of VHS. And those are only the examples I can think of. It goes back farther than that, probably.

Here's the other thing: The new Nook isn't the first touch-based reader to come along since the release of the Kindle 2. If he's so enamored of the touch interface, why didn't he switch earlier?

And finally: He's got an iPad. As far as touch-based interfaces go, you can't do too much better than that.

I think this is one of those content-free stories written strictly to generate page hits.
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