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Originally Posted by ottischwenk
My question to Kobo and Kindle advertisers: are they paid for advertising, or are they so simple-minded to fall for such simple business models.
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Ad hominem slurs are the sign of a weak argument. You insultingly imply that anyone who disagrees with you must be either a paid stooge or mentally deficient. Speaking entirely for myself, the former is DEFINITELY not true, and none I know IRL would support the latter.
Where I live, NONE of the devices you so monotonously plug are readily available. This is what Pocketbook explicitly told me in a reply to an email I sent them inquiring about buying directly from them: "we don't sell to your country". The Chinese brands you mention don't ship here either. I
could buy one of those devices, if I were were willing to pay more than twice what my Kobo Libra cost me, and end up with a device much less suited to my personal usage case. Doing THAT would be a choice indicative of mental deficiency on my part, I think.
Perhaps instead of resorting to demeaning slurs on the intelligence and/or ethics of those who disagree with you, you could accept the idea that different people can have different situations, different tastes and different needs, and that these differences can lead them to make choices that are different to yours.