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Originally Posted by Rizla
I wonder if amazon plans to increasingly centralize functionality to their servers (the cloud) while reducing functionality of kindle units. I can see them eventually selling a dirt-cheap device that doesn't even have a battery. Not long ago they patented wireless transmission of power (a la Tesla).
The fact that collections has only ever been a functionality available to registered devices is evidence this has always been the long-term vision. We can expect to see dumber, cheaper kindles that depend increasingly on being connected. Perhaps the ultimate goal is to stream books to a kindle that will be just be a screen and a wifi unit.
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And how well will that go for all the people who don't have WiFi everywhere they go? Even walking across the street will make you lose your connection to any WiFi network I've even HEARD of. Let alone people going on a road trip. Or the airplane. On both, I read most of the time. Road trips
might be solvable if they intend to give me a 3G unit for the cost of the WiFi unit -- doubtful. Besides, large parts of the world don't have 3G coverage. Most of Asia, Africa, Australia and South America for a start.
Airplanes would definitely be a no-read zone. And Amazon was a big pusher for these fancy new kindles-in-the-air laws...