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pkovak:
I think your summary is dead a on evaluation of the situation. I have no idea if I were deciding the direction to go which way I would jump. My gut tells me that mobile wireless is the best option overall. I am not sure why, maybe because here in the US Whispernet really does work well for everyone I know who has a Kindle.
I sense that people, as in the average general public, will view wifi as a gimmick as well as an "unsafe" method of connection. People have loads of issues with their home wifi networks and could easily port those frustrations over to wifi in a reader.
The only way mobile wireless would work on a more universal basis is if someone gets the providers to agree to something like Amazon has with Whispernet (are they Verizon or AT&T, I forget??). And in some countries the wireless issue is even more convoluted and bassawkards than here in the US.
Really I would have a hard time saying I could be 100% confident in either option. Yet at the same time, if you read my last post (right before yours) I sense that it is a must have component if these readers are to see a wider spread adoption among the average person.
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