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Originally Posted by Rizla
The latter. But then the same could be said for all e-readers in the early stages of their development. And just because my needs are niche doesn't mean it shouldn't be fulfilled. It's being fulfilled in Europe, so why not in America? Again, this is the point I made in the OP. Amazon's dominance is reducing choice.
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were more choices in America also, but people
chose Amazon and that's the big reason the other choices went away. Kindle machines may be "dumb" machines and their displaying of books may be "terrible," etc., etc., but for some reason they sell. I realize a big part of that is Amazon's infrastructure. That infrastructure is why Kindle readers get a lot of my use now (besides, the fact that they default to darker fonts). They just work ... syncing across devices works with Amazon/Kindle (like it never did with the Nook), loading personal documents and sending news articles to my Kindle also work. These may not be Kindle features,
per se, but they definitely enhance the Kindle device.
With desktops there are power users, or gamers, and people who just want the computer to get online, read email, watch Youtube, etc. While the power users may have a much more capable computer, they're vastly outnumbered by the those who don't care. Who are you going to market to?