This blending of software services with hardware, while it has many benefits, has some dangers that I had never considered.
via Why does everything suck?: Removing features you thought you bought – Are there legal issues?.
Some interesting thoughts about the implications of buying hardware which depends on a web service to be useful.
The first time my Kindle had an outage I had some of these same thoughts. Since I had already purchased a lot of content from Amazon at that point, and the content was only usable if my Kindle was functioning, I felt a bit self-righteous about demand an immediate resolution from Amazon.
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