Ad nauseous: Amazon’s ‘hardware-as-service’ model is eroding our sense of ownership
Author: Janet Odell
It’s essentially a given at this point that marketing has actually intruded into almost every aspect of our everyday lives. On television, radio, in print and of course on the web, marketing is the nature of the beast; the cost we pay for the content we take pleasure in. Even these words you are checking out immediately, as an example, exist on this page due to the fact that (unless you’re using the right browser extensions) someplace else on the page is an advertisement.
But while we expect business to be peddling their crap all over we go, there are a couple of places we look at sacred; sanctuaries where such solicitation is intolerable– as an example, a computer system operating system. That’s just what’s so obnoxious and unnatural about what Amazon has done with the Kindle: it has carried out …
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