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Originally Posted by Ghitulescu
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.
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I think the phrase "strip it out" implies a fundamental misunderstanding of Amazon's approach to the Kindle, because the phrasing itself sets the expectation that an SD card slot is an intrinsic component of any reader. You can't strip something out if it's not already there.
Amazon didn't buy or build a ton of readers and take the card slots out of them. They simply chose not to include a card slot in the Kindle 2 and succeeding generations.
They didn't strip it out; they simply chose to use the cloud to replace the aspects of its functionality Amazon thought most important.
Amazon didn't want to spend the money adding hardware they didn't think was necessary.
It was a choice not to add, not a decision to remove.