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Originally Posted by JSWolf
So basically, Amazon took the only format that handles things pretty well and made a new format that sux poopoo and made it their primary format. Well done Amazon.
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I blame Apple for giving Amazon really awful, "inside the walled garden" ideas.
Of course, I blame Apple for lots of things, so you have to take my comments with a grain of salt. Ever since, way back in the early days of the iPad, I bought a $1600 iPad, first-gen, that was supported for about 3 months AFTER I bought it and then turned into a big-ass, expensive doorstop when--typical Apple--the iOS was no longer supported, I have not had much luv for Apple.
I've seen what they (Apple) do to my clients, with iOSes, software, nuking programs that people love/adore, etc. all in the name of "selling more units" (what was that program, Garage Band or something like that?) and...no matter
how vexed I get with Amazon, I know that they supported that damn K2 for what,
14 or 15 years now? From 2008-ish to now? Even though it was a relatively cheap device?
Hell, I'd rather deal with the
annoyance of having to make KF7 versions of books and all that, and know that out there, all those hundreds of thousands or even millions of people,
aren't being abandoned left, right and center, just so Amazon can earn $100 on a tablet or Kindle, than have what to me would be the luxury of NOT making KF7 book versions and thinking about everybody that has to buy a new device, that may not have the dough.
Granted, Kindles
don't cost what iPads did. No argument. But...a Fire is a pretty remarkable tablet, for very, very
VERY little money and I'm glad that even the very first one works yet, happily clumping along. Just...I hate seeing Amazon's book formats go the way of iAuthor and frankly, they should look at WHY Apple abandoned iAuthor. Lessons to be learnt there.
Hitch