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Originally Posted by JBaby
I think Kindle is a good device, but I don’t think it’s the end all be all of ereaders. Another factor that plays into all of this is that there are a lot of people who are strangely, imo, loyal to Amazon. It’s as if some of these people think they’re close, personal friends of Jeff himself. In a few threads it got almost sycophantic, but I don’t know what they think they’re gaining. I’ve never understood such brand loyalty.
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Oddly that is something that I have noticed about Americans. Years back my wife and I spent several weeks with some of her cousins in Phoenix. To us, it was almost incomprehensible why they insisted on going to "their" brand name gas station when the equally well known brand name gas station closer to their home was cheaper. But then there have been claims that Canadian brand loyalty was for sale—cheap.
One of her cousins lectured me on why I shouldn't have bought a Toyota instead of his favoured Ford. My explanation was that my Toyota had better mileage and Toyota had a better quality record than Ford. I don't care if you say it lacks sex appeal. I just wanted a reliable vehicle to take me from point A to B and back and my Camry did just that for well over a decade. Admittedly, the cousin had a bumper sticker, which I remember correctly, was along the lines of he'd rather push a Ford than drive a Chevy. A decade or so later, he would probably have had a bumper sticker with Calvin pissing on a Chevy logo.