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Originally Posted by jhowell
Amazon sells Kindles following the video game console model. The devices are sold below the cost to develop and manufacture (at least initially) with the plan of them being ongoing revenue generators for the company. Microsoft certainly does not support modifications to the software running on x-box consoles.
Added: Amazon has designed it such that the best experience on the device is had when reading books sold by Amazon. One way to assure that continues to be true is by preventing modification by the customer.
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And at least in the early days, real-time market research.
It says so, using different words, in the 'legal' document included on the DX(G) models.
You know, that document too long to be read by a human (I do not count lawyers as a member of that group for the sole purpose of this single post).