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No problem with that. I think most users might be like you, Josieb1. But it's not how I would define quality software: catering to the majority, throwing users with more specific (or higher) demands overboard. As it is, if you happen to enjoy the experience offered by iBooks and Kindle, you're lucky and everything is fine. But if you don't enjoy it, there is little hope Apple or Amazon would listen to you, trying to make you, too, a happy user of their software. Because they focus on the huge masses of users, they tend to overlook individual concerns. That's the real problem, as I see it. Their argument for accepting or rejecting a feature request is typically numbers-based: it's not about whether that particular feature would increase the quality of software, but whether sufficient amounts of users are requesting that feature. Quantity over quality. Because most users are fine with basic functionality, the typical result is bland software with limited functionality.
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