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Originally Posted by taustin
I don't. Until B&N did this, they have always been far friendlier to the consumer who wants to stroll outside the walled garden than Amazon. Far, far friendlier. Amazon wants to be the only source of everything for everyone, and they want that to be because there is no other place to buy anything. They're smarter than B&N, though, so they don't do stuff that produces the exact opposite result of what they want.
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True, true. After all, B&N lets you put whatever you want on your Kindle, whereas last I checked, Amazon partitioned your Kindle to reserve most of the storage exclusively for Amazon-downloaded books.
And only a fool would think that the only restrictions on putting whatever you want on any ereader you want --
barring partitioned userstores -- is the DRM, something which, incidentally, is all Amazon's fault too, because it is Amazon forcing the publishers to use DRM in order to lock people into the Amazon closed garden*.
Oh, wait.
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And that is the only real difference, all of a sudden, between Amazon and B&N: Amazon is a lot smarter. But both have their own financial interests at heart, far more than yours or mine. And the moment that Amazon feels they can make more money by turning off downloads, they'll turn off downloads. And their ecosystem is set up to make that easier for them to do, where B&N's was designed from the start to be more friendly to hacking.
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Let's not focus on which device is designed to be more hackable. Let's focus on which device has been hacked more.
* please ignore the lowness of those walls, thankyouverymuch.