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Originally Posted by TuxGirl
I honestly think that amazon removed a lot of these features to make things more simple for their typical customer. I've spent many many many hours helping people on the kindle forum and kindle help forum on amazon. From what I've seen there and with people I know in person, the majority of users barely know how to do the most basic of functions on their kindles. More options would honestly confuse them. Honestly, plenty of people don't even understand what WiFi is and how it works. They haven't the slightest idea what an SD card is...
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While this may be true that older people or atechnical ones do not know about an SDcard, but this is not a reason to strip it out. In fact, the presence of an SDcard slot does not incur more functions to the eReader, I mean to complicate the things. In all devices I have, the SDcard is "transparent" to the user (for instance, the origin of books and music is irrelevant for my eReader and music players, respectively).
And of course, the basic laws of marketing allow the designer to split the "only one" into two categories, for idiots and for geniuses. It's not even need to do separate factories for those two products, simply program the robots not to solder the slot and its logic. An additional line in the firmware (IF SD_slot = 0 THEN SKIP_SD_CARD) won't require a big intellectual investment either.