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14 years of support for a device is pretty incredible.
14 years is impressive? Wait until you find out how long a real book can last.
A kindle is more like a bookshelf from IKEA, it has a finite lifetime.
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You can work around the SD card just as "easily" as you can work around the card slot, as you can just always keep a usb-c sd card reader plugged into the phone. Obviously, both of them are absolutely silly "solutions" to problems that wouldn't have been necessary in the first place.
You can keep the adapter attached to the headphones and it's not an insurmountable hassle You certainly can't realistically keep an SD card dongle permanently sticking out of your phone to store your photos/etc.
It's already enough of a hassle to add/remove the 3.5mm/6.35mm headphone adapter, I don't need to have another adapter I can lose.
Aside from that, the whole usb-c stuff is so much more sensitive to dust and dirt, I wouldn't even want to have a usb-c adapter on my headphones.
While I currently buy Sony phones, for a while I had a phone without 3.5mm port and ended up just supergluing a splitter cable & headphone adapter to the back of it. But you have to replace it regularly as even with a right-angle usb-c connector the twist and turn is too tight to survive more than a few months.
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Mine doesn't remember the last opened books when the date isn't correct. Unfortunately you cannot set the date manually.
Did you mean to reply to someone else? You can set the date manually on the Daylight and even if you have trouble, you can just use a different app. It's just Android.
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There definitely are ways that publishers could have avoided falling foul of anti-Cartel legislation (my question was about where the line is, ie if they did it legally would it actually benefit them), but... Spotify and Netflix aren't owned or created by a syndicate of all the major publishers, so that's not actually a counter point. There's a huge difference legally speaking between a company negotiating with lots…
Have we really come to a point where the only business structures we can envision are huge monopolies playing zero-sum games? Imagine if every publisher offered every book to every service that sells it to consumers? And are free to sell their own and other publishers books? They could even include Amazon. Yes, it would require DRM and a bit of software infrastructure, but guess what: they could choose to fund develo…