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Originally Posted by Calenorn
Certainly, I'm not the average Kindle owner; and I'm not saying that Amazon should design its hardware to please me.
Elegant? Technologically elegant, I will grant you. But it doesn't appeal to me at all. In what way does your solution benefit the customer? What does it enable the reader to do that isn't possible now?
Better for Amazon, sure. Why should I buy it?
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Not better for Amazon, actually -- and for all the reasons that you just enumerated.
Amazon is in business to sell consumers what they want -- and if consumers expressed interest in Rizla's pipe dream, then Amazon would accommodate.
Amazon has a good thing going with the Kindle Fire, similar to Apple's iPads -- they have convinced people they want that specific tablet, and to pay premiums for built-in storage instead of having an SD slot.
But there aren't any consumers who will put up with a device that cannot get extra storage either from the manufacturer OR via an SD card, and is limited to a GB or so for the OS alone.
Even the Chromebook,
the ultimate internet-comnectivity-centric device, has enough builtin memory to handle a fair amount of offline storage, user data, etc. -- and has USB ports too.