Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
If I was on the fence about the Kindle before (which I wasn't), I'd be off that fence like a shot now, and heading for more open devices. Why invest in a device that can be so easily bricked, depriving you of further use (or potentially, of the use of products you've already purchased) when you can get a device that reads multiple formats and is not tied so tightly to a restrictive service?
|
All good points. But in the long run, which keeps getting shorter, any electronic device is bricked by technological change. I have a nice little Mac Color Classic that believe it or not is still running. It runs well, but it can't run much anymore.
It's the format that has to be open, don't you think? Else we readers are just renting our ebooks. (I'm beginning to think that this is the reality.)