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Originally Posted by VirgoGirl
The Senior Citizens Reading Group at my local library would take issue with being counted as a "zero group"  Plenty of old ereaders (the devices, not the people  ), "senior" phones and children/grandchildren willing to put books on the readers for them. Yeah, not Amazon's target audience. |
Let's ask those old readers that have old readers how many do
not have an iPad, iPhone, Samsung or whatever wrong word they use to describe a smartphone or tablet, nor access to a computer/Chromebook whatever.
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In Canada, Kobos were cheap - often having ridiculous sales, which is how I got my Kobos - allowed you to read books from the elibraries (still do), and e-ink is SO much better for eye health than glowing screens. In the US, there was the B&N Nook - can't speak for that, not in the US - and I know many people in the UK who had Sony readers or Nooks (which I found weird).
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In the US at one point, we had Kindles/Sonys/Nooks/Kobos all selling ereaders. It was a golden time.
We also had Apple/Sony/Lenovo/Samsung/LG/Acer/Asus/Dell/Motorola/Nokia/Amazon, etc. putting out multiple phones and tablets for every price range.
And those devices were sold in many stores, unlike ereaders that were available from a single store or online only.
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I HAD a Ipad 2, I hated reading any books on it because it made my eyes hurt and the glass screen prevented easy outdoor reading due to sun glare. My phone doesn't support "current" apps, but it makes phone calls and sends texts, so updating to read a book seems expensive. There are more of us than you think who have what many would call "outdated tech", and while Amazon won't support us and yes, frankly doesn't HAVE to, calling it a nonsense argument is, well, nonsense. 
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See: Even you had one.
Look, I'm sure you are or know the one Canadian who can't buy a Kindle, but has a Kobo, yet cannot buy ebooks from Kobo, yet is able to buy Amazon ebooks, strip the DRM, import them into Calibre and then sideload them onto said Kobo. That is probably the same fabled grandmother who runs SlackwareLinux on her seventy year-old laptop.