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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
What I can't fathom are crowd-dependent populists who pretend they're activists.
No one cares who likes or doesn't like Apple or Amazon. It doesn't matter how many people think either company or their special format is swell. You're not talking about a platform, you're yelling at your parents. Meanwhile, Amazon tablets pump ads in people's faces and harass us to play in their store. Every news article points this out, even the ones that favor the Kindle Fire. If that's what you and your vast Amazon posse like, sobeit. But a lot of us have specific uses for software and environments which the majority will never have despite the popularity of either platform.
Really, do I show up on Kindle Fire forums and pollute every thread with the same sophmoric statements? Mobile Read should have a Pointless Argument Forum so that people like yourself can have tough-offs with others who live to advocate their favorite hardware companies.
Meanwhile, Apple, Google and Amazon aren't paying any of us. It all comes down to individual use and function.
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Man, that was a lot of words just to say you have no defense for your position.
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Meanwhile, Amazon tablets pump ads in people's faces and harass us to play in their store.
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Amazon effectively pays people to see those adds by charging so much less for the device. Ad subsidies are hardly unique to Amazon (see, for example, every free app in the Apple app store), and, again, has nothing to do with side loading or restricted platforms which is what we were talking about.
And "harass?" Again, a seeming ignorance of the meaning of word, since there is no harassment, just a well integrated store, which OBVIOUSLY they'd like you to shop in. And you are comparing this to the Apple App Store? Sure, they don't harass, they simply give you NO OTHER OPTION.
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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Really, do I show up on Kindle Fire forums and pollute every thread with the same sophmoric statements?
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You do realize this is the News forum, not the Apple forum, right?
By the way, I might add I think the Mini will be a success, and sounds like a pretty good product. I think Apple is way over priced and way too restrictive in an Evil sort of way, but the stuff is usually well built, and if the Mini performs even as well as an iPad2, it will indeed be smoother and more fluid than the comparable cheaper stuff. Plus, there is value in a controlled walled-garden for the average non-techie consumer.