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Originally Posted by HarryT
At the risk of repeating myself, why on Earth they made the Kindle use the US-specific EVDO service rather than the world-wide EDGE system (ie GSM-based) is a mystery that I just can't fathom. It seems like a very short-sighted design decision.
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Oh come on Harry! Surely if you think hard enough you can fathom a reason why. I would say that the operators of the EDGE system simply did not provide Amazon with a deal that made business sense. Amazon is a business... and they seem to be a pretty successful business. They can only stay that way by doing things that make business sense.
This means that if they only capture the North American market, then so be it. I'm sure that they ran numerous models and projections on what would make the Kindle a success in their eyes and felt that this would work.