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Originally Posted by WillysJeepMan
That's the fundamental difference between the iPad and Kindle Fire. Although one is not necessarily worse or better than the other, they ARE different.
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Yes, I agree, Apple are more focussed on making money from the device, Amazon from the content (although Bezos has said they do both). However, in both cases, Apple and Amazon provide a way to install additional reading apps if you're not happy with the experience their in built apps provide.
The kindle is Amazon's device and likely subsidised to a degree. It's bound to push Amazon as a content provider and makes sense that Amazon will skip features on purpose to make it easier buy from their store, or simply because they don't want to spend time adding features that do not help them sell more content, as long as they're not blocking alternative apps from making up for that short coming, I don't see it as a terrible thing.
Granted, it'd be nicer if books/docs and so forth that were in a supported format appeared alongside all the Amazon bought content as it does in the kindle eInk devices.
On a related note, it's sad imo that the growing trend is for devices to be tied to a single store and retailer rather than devices competing on their HW specs and out the box functionality but able to install apps/content from a wide range of places. I wish tablets and phones were more like the PC market was (up until MS also started to lock down the PC with the atrocity that is windows 8)