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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
I don't know about that.
I've never had an iPhone or iPod of any kind and I've been using iTunes for a long time for ripping MP3s from CDs, buying MP3s, managing my MP3 library etc.
And I know plenty who do the same. It's the best known/most used MP3 software. So I think plenty of people with out iPhones have used iTunes on their PC.
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News to me. Most of the PC owners I know wind up asking me to fix things on their PCs. Which strangely, I seem to have a talent for even though I have never owned one of them. But they are an older demographic...
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Agreed, but 3G doesn't really matter much to such people as it's not a big deal to buy books on the PC and drag them over to the reader which is hooked up via USB.
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I think that the dragging might be a bigger deal than you think. The beauty of the Kindles is that there's none of that connecting & dragging business. It is actually the easiest & simplest ebook reading environment.
I know that I prefer buying on Amazon & sending to my iPhone over the setup I have to deal with on my Sonys.
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Plus Apple is looking to go mainstream, and not cater to the avid readers who read enough to even think about buying a reading device.
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That's true but not what I was talking about.
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Agreed. I think the avid readers will be more drawn to the e-ink devices. People will buy an iPad mainly for other functions, but still do some reading on it. But the majority probably won't be buying it to use soley as a reading device.
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On the whole, I think you are right, except perhaps for Mac users - which is the ultimate point I'm trying to make.