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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
I find Amazon's standpoint on its walled-garden conflicted.
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Just having proprietary formats already creates enough of a wall to keep almost all of their customers locked in to Amazon. Relatively few bother with DRM removal and format conversion. Certainly not enough to matter to their bottom line.
I think the creation of a new format was less about trying to achieve 100% absolute lock in and more about being able to add new features, even if the features that they add are not the ones their customers have been asking for. Additional lock in is just an added benefit to them.
As they say, "Idle programmers are the devil's workshop."