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Originally Posted by eschwartz
The fact that the Kindle is the best-selling ereader worldwide would argue against that -- I think AMazon knows what it is doing.  |
When you put all the Readers sold together that are not from Amazon, there are more of them out there then Amazon. People buy other Readers because it's not Amazon. Amazon is not for everyone. It's not even for some that own a Kindle. The Kindle is one of the most fixed Readers out there in terms of hardware and software and Amazon is making it even more fixed by plugging the holes to allow for jailbreaks. Amazon doesn't want customers to customize. They want customers who take what they get like it or not. If Amazon had allowed reasonable settings, I might have gotten one.
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No, the vast majority do not give a darn. Then there is you, who is loud and vociferous and tries to seem like a lot of people in one.
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I would not say vast majority. It could be a majority, but I doubt it's vast.
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If Amazon is so all knowing, then why in hell did they give 2GB to the PW1 originally and then up it to 4GB? They did that because Amazon was WRONG about the amount of storage when they decided to go for the cheaper option.
No one really knows why Amazon did so, but there are theories ranging from:
4GB cards are now just as cheap as 2GB cards, to
Amazon is intending on ramping up comic sales, which need more space.
Either theory is more reasonable.
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I don't think it's because of comics. I think it's Amazon made a mistake.
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OK then, I agree. Any ereader without WiFi needs to have an SD slot. Now go find me one. Maybe even one made and sold by Amazon.
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You know full well that Amazon doesn't currently sell a Reader with a card slot.
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Maybe. And maybe it would still cost money for the card slot, and bulk up the device even if the motherboard DOES have a socket to connect to.
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Yes, it might cost more. But given how much the parts cost and how much in bulk Amazon would buy, it would not raise the price much.
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And since when do you "know the way Amazon works"??? 
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I know how Amazon doesn't work. Amazon doesn't give flexibility. They don't give much in the way useful settings while reading. They don't want you to side load fonts. When it was found out that Amazon left a hole in the system to allow side loaded fonts, they quickly patched it so that no longer worked. It's just proof that when there's something that users want that Amazon doesn't want to give, they take it away.
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And I still don't think it is too much burden to transfer them with calibre while AFKing.
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What you don't transfer is reading locations and annotations. So those have to be looked up on the previous device.
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Sure it would sell. But the people who would buy it are mostly people who would otherwise buy the one without... so what benefit is there in selling a device at break-even cost or a loss, if it doesn't generate more ebook sales?
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People are buying now because it's what's out there. If they had a choice, I think they would go for the card slot even if it doesn't get used just to have it.