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Originally Posted by madmaxmedia
It's a non-issue for people that post on message boards for digital devices. But it is an issue for general consumers. Not because they can't fathom the concept of having more than 1 store, but because some may or may not ever become aware of other stores, or might unsuccessfully search for some game or app that they heard of, because they are at the wrong store.
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They'll learn, or they won't. Generally speaking, I'd like to think that people telling them about neat apps or games might also tell them where to find them.
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It's a bit of an inconvenience as well, having to enter credit card information and registration for multiple sites. I mean I don't really care, but if you ever need to re-download something it's a no-brainer at the Apple App Store. With my old Palm PDA's I had to go hunt down registration codes, or Handango or PalmGear logins, etc.
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I made sure I kept distribution archives of software like that to avoid the necessity of redownload. And I kept a file of serial numbers and reg codes for the occasions where I might have to hard reset and rebuild from scratch.
I've fielded a fair number of "Help! What do I do now?" questions on Palm oriented forums from folks who
didn't do that, and should have. The answer was too often "Nothing. You're hosed."
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I think the single store approach is generally better for the Kindle, if not for all Kindle owners. The G1 is a bit more techy oriented than the Kindle or iPod, so it's no big deal.
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You may be right, since the Kindle encourages vendor lock in, but Amazon has a broad enough product offering that there will be little need to look elsewhere.
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Dennis