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Originally Posted by gca3020
Here's my biggest flaw with your logic. By adding all these features to your kindle (calendar, e-mail, reminder, etc...) you will be increasing your data consumption. Data is not free. Amazon subsidizes the cost of it because right now, it's (primarily) only used for downloading books. As soon as you start adding more features that use the data, Amazon will be forced to pass that cost on to us.
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Actually that's not true. If you sell or give away an app that allows data access over 3G then you the developer pay for 3G access by the app's users. Amazon does not cover the cost of 3G access from apps Edit: above 100KB/month. This is spelled out as far as charges, and levels of access and so on the Software Development Kit Beta site.
Here's the relevant part of the page, Amazon clearly has thought this through and taken the costs of 3G into consideration. I wouldn't worry about apps killing off free 3G.
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Active content will be available to customers in the Kindle Store later this year. Your active content can be priced three ways:
* Free – Active content applications that are smaller than 1MB and use less than 100KB/user/month of wireless data may be offered at no charge to customers. Amazon will pay the wireless costs associated with delivery and maintenance.
* One-time Purchase - Customers will be charged once when purchasing active content. Content must have nominal (less than 100KB/user/month) ongoing wireless usage.
* Monthly Subscription - Customers will be charged once per month for active content.
Active content applications have an upper size limit of 100MB. Applications larger than 10MB will not be delivered wireless but can be downloaded from the Kindle Store to a computer and transferred to the user’s Kindle via USB.
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