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Originally Posted by Rizla
Apparently the chip in the Kindle comes with blue-tooth functionality built-in, and guess what--Amazon turn it off! Why? It would cost them nothing to leave it activated, and leave it as an unsupported experimental feature.
Why does Amazon have such an unnecessarily restrictive attitude? It's like with not allowing custom fonts and the poor margin options. But unfortunately Amazon seems determined to reduce the functionality of e-readers.
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Amazon writes the OS for the Kindles, so in order to use the Bluetooth functionality, they'd have to include a Bluetooth stack in that OS. Deactivating the Bluetooth (at the OS/software level) simplifies the development process.
Even unsupported features increase support costs, because there are always people who call for support on those features, and telling them the feature isn't supported still incurs the costs of the support call.
Finally, it's not active because it's not needed for the Kindle's designed purpose.
From Amazon's perspective the cost/benefit analysis came up in favor of leaving it deactivated.