▲ 267 ▼ Kobo announces its first color e-readers (www.theverge.com) submitted 2 years ago by schizoidman@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml 94 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14277930 Kobo announces its first color e-readers
[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) You can buy "discounted" Kindle e-readers with ads, or you can buy them without ads for full price. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) There's no discount there, you're just accepting their marketing bullshit. That sounds to me like the company is double-dipping by shoving ads in your face and making the product objectively worse, then charging even more for a "premium" model where the only difference is they haven't intentionally downgraded it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago Hence the quotation marks. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) There's no discount there, you're just accepting their marketing bullshit. That sounds to me like the company is double-dipping by shoving ads in your face and making the product objectively worse, then charging even more for a "premium" model where the only difference is they haven't intentionally downgraded it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago Hence the quotation marks. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago Hence the quotation marks. permalink fedilink source parent