[hal_9000]

one could easily argue that automatic adoption of edevices, regardless of quality issues, undermines long-term quality, as the usual free market reward and punishment checks and balances would be removed, thereby giving corporations no incentive to improve the devices.

hence, the argument presented in the OP is moderate at best, weak at worst.

also: the notion that we have any obligation above and beyond mere purchasers and users of these devices is nonsense. this would mean the users and purchasers essentially replace the engineers at sony and amazon. when i signed up here, it was to obtain the necessary info to decide whether to purchase the kindle or not. that's it. i'm not interested in being some grandoise self-appointed contributor to edevice technology.