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Authored by: stegu on Monday, September 10 2012 @ 03:23 AM EDT |
> Win-win situation for Amazon.
To avoid losing some of the money you were
forced to pay as the result of a baseless
lawsuit is not a "win". It is like having
your wallet back with at least some of
your personal stuff still in it after
being mugged. Overall, not a good thing.
Besides, people will be annoyed by being
forced to use Bing. I can't understand how
people in "the land of the free" can be so
quick to accept lock-in through bundling on
computer and phone platforms.
If buying a house of a certain kind forced
you by contract to buy your food at one
particular shop only, would people be
comfortable with it? Would it be considered
normal to sign that kind of deal for unrelated
services in other areas than computers and
phones? If not, why should we accept it for
those particular products but not for others?
This is not a win for Amazon. They caved in,
sold out and lost. I understand that they did it
to try to avoid an even greater loss, or even a
cancellation of the Kindle project, but it's
still a loss for consumers, and a win only
for Microsoft.
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