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Originally Posted by pilotbob
I agree, your average user won't know that. But, will they care. I think that "mainstream" iPod owners buy all of their music from iTunes and don't really care (or even know) that it is locked to their device. I'm sure the same it true of the majority of Kindle owners. People in this forum are more on the techincal edge and see the potential problems and issues with vendor/device lock in.
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Precisely.
Amazon has an enormous amount of content, and good pricing. Kindle users may not
care about vendor lock-in, because they can get what they want at a price they are willing to pay.
I don't like vendor lock-in as a matter of principle, but I'm not interested in a Kindle (or any other reader at the moment, for that matter), so I don't factor into the equation.
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Dennis