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Originally Posted by MGlitch
In as far as my complaints against Amazon go, yes. If a service tries to make it difficult for me to get work from other services in the area I’m less likely to give them my custom. I don’t expect either entity (Amagoople or mom and pop) to bend over backwards in allowing me a fluid experience, but if it becomes a headache to say get a history for my dog from a veterinarian to a dog daycare because of the non law based rules of either business I’ll seek out a different business to fill the need. If a pizza place constantly raises its prices but delivers sub par pizza regularly I’ll find a different pizzeria (I’m a bit spoiled for choice living in a major city).
Not that it’s mom and pop by any means but I also stopped buying ebooks from Barnes and Noble because they removed the ability to download ebooks from their website, essentially discontinued the nook for computer apps (Nook Study, Nook for PC, and I believe Nook PC from the Windows store from the brief partnership between BN/MS), and removed the SD card slot which previously along with a third party hack allowed BN purchased books to be accessible. They also needlessly (IMO upgraded the version of Android on I think the Nook Glowlight Plus; it was the white one with a pebbled front bezel. Which added friction into my typical use of the nook. And initially it had all sorts of issues borrowing ebooks from overdrive, though I believe this was remedied later in a firmware update.
Now while BN isn’t a mom and pop store it’s certainly significantly smaller than Amazon. And if anything I’m harsher on BN than I am Amazon. Likely because I’ve lost count of the hoops one needs to jump through with BN to get epub files while Amazon is comparably straight forward if still aggravating and far from frictionless.
And I’d judge Kobo the same way (and be rather frustrated trying to find a device I like as much as the Kobo line) were they to lock down their devices and make accessing purchases as difficult.
Seemingly ironically I like Apple. Yes it’s a walled garden. But it’s a walled garden that works well with itself and gives me what it promises and what I want from it.
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Fair enough. But if I'm being honest, I don't consider you one of the Don Quixotes that grab their lances and tilt away every time A is mentioned (without criticism). Crusades are rarely justified.