Sentences with phrase «about platform lock»

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For one, Amazon, like other e-book sellers, has used a scheme known as «digital rights management» (DRM), which limits the types of devices that can read certain e-book formats.259 Compelling readers to purchase a Kindle through cheap e-books locks them into future e-book purchases from Amazon.260 Moreover, buying — or even browsing — e-books on Amazon's platform hands the company information about your reading habits and preferences, data the company uses to tailor recommendations and future deals.261 Replicated across a few more purchases, Amazon's lock - in becomes strong.

Think about it — The Platforms are using Books published by the Big 5 Publishers to attract readers to their ecosystems and get locked into their pipelines.

Tuesday's event shows how BlackBerry still doesn't get it: Misleading statements about how many more messages on BlackBerry Messenger are being sent than competing services, misleading statements about application numbers, misleading statements about revenue per developer being higher than another platform, a mid-range plastic keyboard phone that will likely be too expensive, and the upcoming loss of the only lock - in BlackBerry still offered ends our coverage of today's events.

After all, I often worried about being locked into Amazon's Kindle platform each time I bought another $ 9.99 book for it.

However, the FAQ also states that you'll pick your beta platform closer to launch, so PC players with access to a PSN or Xbox Live account won't have to worry about being locked out of the beta.

August bundles its Wi - Fi August Connect Wi - Fi bridge with the lock, which means it can connect to just about any smart home platform — including Apple's HomeKit — and the lock itself is also equipped with Bluetooth and Z - Wave Plus radios.

A fair few Android users appear to be having a similarly rude awakening about how Google's mobile platform (and apps) slurp location data pervasively — at least unless the user is very, very careful to lock everything down.

Just about every presenter on stage rocked a Wear - powered device, and the Wear platform permeated through a variety of presentations, including its ability to work with your Android phone to authenticate lock screen logins.

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