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mdovell · 03-01-2010, 02:27 PM

Well the other thing to think about this is how many devices honestly have internet access built in?

I think much of this might have to deal with some of the economic and political concerns in some other countries.

I've been to China and the internet there is odd to say the least. Sometimes sites work..sometimes they don't work. Sometimes they work in some places and time and other times they don't. There's no list of banned sites etc.

I highly doubt that after making one international version that amazon would tolerate a country asking to put filters on a kindle. With that being the case the exclusion of the internet was the easiest thing to do..

Besides wikipedia is pretty huge these days when you think about it.

Web browsing on the kindle is OK but it's more of an added bonus for me, not the primary drive.

03-01-2010, 02:27 PM	#10
mdovell Zealot Posts: 148 Karma: 3168 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: Kindle DX	Well the other thing to think about this is how many devices honestly have internet access built in? I think much of this might have to deal with some of the economic and political concerns in some other countries. I've been to China and the internet there is odd to say the least. Sometimes sites work..sometimes they don't work. Sometimes they work in some places and time and other times they don't. There's no list of banned sites etc. I highly doubt that after making one international version that amazon would tolerate a country asking to put filters on a kindle. With that being the case the exclusion of the internet was the easiest thing to do.. Besides wikipedia is pretty huge these days when you think about it. Web browsing on the kindle is OK but it's more of an added bonus for me, not the primary drive.