Thread: Amazon answers Kindle Touch 3G web browsing availability
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Old 11-01-2011, 07:18 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg View Post
As for the Touch: Amazon can change all or any of these rules tomorrow. If reviewers pan the 3G Touch for being much worse than the 3G KK because of lack of free international cell phone network web coverage (as I would), Amazon might conceivably back down. On the other hand, if Amazon strips from the 3G Touch what I consider to be the best feature of the 3G KK, with no impact on sales growth, Amazon's strategists will wonder whether they can get away with taking away the feature from the older devices.* I can't think of any strong business reason Amazon should continue free worldwide internet for long, with older eInk devices, if they get away with this on the new one.
They won't back down. They'd be out of their minds to offer free, unlimited 3G internet access on a touch screen device.

In this case, interface is everything.
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