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Originally Posted by Harmon
But aren't those all kind of no brainer connections? Where the program starts up automatically & downloads things?
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Not really. iPods you can hook up and sync, but there's a lot of dragging and dropping still if you have more music than it can hold.
The Creative MP3 players I have are pure drag and drop--they just show up like flash drives (well the Vision M you have to open a program, but it's just a file explorer program that looks just like windows explorer).
The Kindle system is great, I love mine. But it's hardly rocket science to hook up via USB and drag and drop for most folks. The Kindle has an advantage for people who aren't very computer literate, aren't used to using USB devices to drag and drop files etc.
But for most under a certain age that's pretty moot as most everyone is using flash drives, external hard drives, MP3 players etc. if they're going to be buying that kind of tech gadget.
The wireless transfer is a damn nice convenience to have even for someone like me who's a bit of a tech head, but it wasn't a big selling point. The better selection and better prices on some books in the Amazon store vs. the Sony store when I was checking was the deciding factor for me.