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Re:Kindle 2 Fails Man's Drop Test, Forces Amazon To Pay Him ... by madair on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @10:11PM (#893836)
Companies try to make tough products. They want to show that they tried for and tested for such things. All you're asking for is more fine print. Fine print makes America stoopid.

(Don't stick your head in this bucket, you might drown.)

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Re:Kindle 2 Fails Man's Drop Test, Forces Amazon To Pay Him ... by pyre on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @10:34PM (#893875)
No offense, but if a company advertises a product as 'can survive a 4ft drop unharmed!' but it completely breaks after I accidentally drop it 2ft... Something is seriously off. It has less to do with fine print and more to do with trust in advertising.
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Re:Kindle 2 Fails Man's Drop Test, Forces Amazon To Pay Him ... by paulbaumgart on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @11:33PM (#893981)
If he mentioned how long he'd owned the Kindle before he broke it, I didn't catch it. But, assuming it was a while, I can imagine over time it becoming less fall-proof as it gets knocked around. The Kindles dropped in the videos were presumably brand new.
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