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Originally Posted by badbob001
One possibility is that for devices with 3G, the carrier gets some percentage of each purchase made and delivered over their network to offset operational costs of the contract. If a device's only network access is through the carrier, then the vendor can just add up the network-delivered purchases to figure out what they will need to pay the carrier. But if a device can download from wifi as well, then either the carrier will see less revenue (and not want to enter this contract in the first palce) or a more sophisticated system needs to be created to differentiate carrier vs wifi downloads.
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Question to me is, why units
without 3G (still vast majority of all units) don't offer WiFi functionality.
If I remember correctly, BeBook 2 did announce WiFi functionality via SD-dongle.
If the manufacturers even would integrate certain webstores, they probably could have some kind of profit share.
Maybe it doesn't make sense to integrate WiFi without 3G from a cost perspective. But integrating it into the OS and offering a WiFi-dongle as an add-on shouldn't be a biggy.