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Kindle Paperwhite 11 years ago

I want to be able to use it for RSS feeds as well. Even native Pocket or Evernote integration would be great.

Are you referring also to Columbia House and BMG in the 90s? Sign up, get seven CDs for a buck, then you forget to cancel and they send you "A Barry Manilow and Kenny G Christmas" for $18 plus S&H.

This still happens online with an X-day trial of something, fine print says to cancel or be charged $XX.XX/mo. Good luck figuring out how to cancel, though.

This is a good point. I love my Kindle and I read fiction and non-fiction on it regularly. However, anything technical I vastly prefer print. I cannot really say why, other than traversing a technical book is just "easier" to flip around with versus a linear progression like other books.

For some reason, I convinced myself that Valence was going to allow us to change the engine to Webkit and Trident as well as Gecko. While testing iOS and Android is awesome, this would have been downright incredible.

I think it is fantastic. Companies lately are moving toward profits over customer loyalty, which seems counter-intuitive. Keurig et al need to learn a lesson from this and stop the silly non-sense. They have already cornered the at-home brewing market (or close to it I would assume) and personally have never seen a non-Keurig branded K-cup that they are so worried about. There is no need to get greedy.

Let me put on my tinfoil hat for a second.

Two companies that love user data are making "languages" for us to write our applications with (Facebook with Hack and React, Google with Dart and Go)

The NSA worked backdoors into RSA encryption. Could the Facebook/Google compilers provide a similar backdoor for them to syphon data?

/tinfoilhat