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Originally Posted by kjk
You are free to take such risks. Just buy a different brand. If people agree with you, open systems will be more successful than closed ones.
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True. But it's when a company becomes a monopoly and we end up not having a choice at all that concerns me. We have Android making some dents in the App Store, which I hope it continues to do. On the same token, i also dislike Windows' monopoly in the desktop market and I hope Linux/MacOS continue to eat away at that.
As for ebooks, I always assumed the Amazon store was the main place to buy them, but I'm happy to see that other major retailers are popping up to challenge that. Now, if they could only agree on a standard format / DRM scheme, that would even be better.