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By: switch11

switch11 — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:31:28 +0000

You need actual customers to make money and potential customers to grow. Don’t know what’s more important. Didn’t study Economics which explains why your point eludes me.

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:10:28 +0000

No there isn’t. How can an actual customer buy something that doesn’t exist yet. Your argument doesn’t make sense. If ‘potential customers’ are complaining about the pre-purchase of the Kindle, then Amazon isn’t listening to their ‘potential customers’. If Amazon is only thinking about ‘actual customers’ their not going to grow and sell more products. So an actual customer and potential customer are the same exact thing. It’s called Economics 101.

By: switch11

switch11 — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:47:31 +0000

There’s a difference between potential customer and actual customer.

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:33:05 +0000

Wait, so am I not a customer if I don’t actually own a product? That’s not right. A customer is someone who is shopping in a store, whether they buy something or not. I agree that t’s impossible for someone to review a book or movie that they haven’t read yet, but they are completely entitled to review a product that doesn’t meet the standards they hope for, for example, a Kindle with bad design, or DRM problems.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:37:13 +0000

This is the same thing that the Mac and iPhone has gone through with some blogs and even some major newspaper morons.

These days, all the NY Times does is give their biased opinion as facts and only cover stories that they think make its point. And they are wondering why less and less people buy their rag!

By: TeresaR

TeresaR — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:43:02 +0000

I love that it’s only an E-Reader. I don’t need all that other stuff, and why waste hard drive space with something I don’t need? E-Readers are for the power reader. Power readers are people who buy books by the dozens, and read them fast. I’ve been known to read three books in one day. Why would I want something else? I don’t want to have the small screens of the IPhone. I want something dedicated only to my books. Feel free to use the kindle for IPhone or whatever it’s called if you don’t want the Kindle. As they say, “There’s an app for that.” Enjoy it.

I once had a cell phone provider tell me I needed a better phone, that I was too smart for the one I was holding. I told him I was too smart to waste my money on something I didn’t need, so don’t worry about it. And it’s true. My cell phone is an emergency use only thing. I’ve never gone over my minutes in the 7 years I’ve been using one.

And with the Ereader (kindle), I can do what I want, when I want. I even purchased a nice purse that it fits in perfectly. (I rarely carry a purse, except when I want to take the kindle with me).

I don’t need to play chess or get the local time or weather. I don’t need to use my kindle to look up local restaurants or browse the web. “There’s an app for that”, should I really decide that’s imperative for my life.

Books and audio books are all I need it for, and it does a super job of both!

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By: tom b

tom b — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:50:16 +0000

The Kindle is a joke. It is black and white. It is awfuly expensive for a limited device that ONLY serves as an E-reader. It’s like all those gadgets you get from Sharper Image that ONLY play chess, or ONLY give you the local time and weather.

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