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Originally Posted by l_macd
There are plenty of valid reasons for people to never have owned a Kindle, and this thread makes interesting reading for that. However, there are quite a few examples of people who clearly have a dislike for Amazon but its as if they don't want to say that and try to dress it up with a more 'valid' reason.
"They (Kindle's) are just portable amazon shops."
"Amazon ruined the e-reader device market."
If I'd realised this before I bought a Kindle, this would have been the one reason for me not to buy it. Since my library didn't actually have e-books at the time it didn't really matter, and I've since learned it's not difficult to get round anyway. Though my Sony 350 makes it even easier now! |
Yup.
I don't shop at Walmart because I don't like Walmart. The stores I have been too are crowded, claustraphobic, and I don't like how they treat their employees. Other folks are free to shop at Walmart and I respect their choice.
I have no problem with people not owning or wanting to own a Kindle. I understand that people want things on their devices that I could care less about (formatting options, sd card, replaceable battery). I even get saying I don't own a Kindle because I don't like Amazon.
I get not owning an iPad because you don't like Apple. Apple annoys me, I think their products are over priced, but I wanted to play certain games which were only avialable on an iPad so I bought an iPad. Love it but Apple still annoys me. Something about the company makes me feel like I am trying to buy my way into the cool kids club and that just feels wrong.
I suppose I need to figure out why I get annoyed with the I don't like Amazon because they dominate the market, they want to be a monopoly, they have a walled garden, they destroyed ereaders things annoys me so much. They just rub me wrong.