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Originally Posted by boswd
my guess is they were looking to trim the fat and probably did some research on how widely used some of the extra features were. I'm sure each extra feature has their dedicated niche for example my wife loves audio books for her ride into work. She ripped almost her entire library into MP3 and downloaded them to her nook classic and runs a male to male 3.5 mm jack to the stereo.
Me on the flip side have never once used the mp3 player. My guess is I'm the majority and she's the minority so if you are looking for ways to cut down on the overall cost of things, that wouldn't make the cut.
just pure speculation.
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No doubt. Along those lines, I'd be curious to see their metrics on how much money they make from books purchased over WiFi and 3G.
They obviously kept WiFi in, and not a browser or 3G, for a reason.
Amazon, on the other hand, continues to subsidize 3G web access for three generations of ereaders. Are their number that different, or are they trying to hit different audiences?