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Originally Posted by fjtorres
The market has made it clear it values wireless more than it values touch screens.
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This is an interesting point. Which with I happen to agree.
An e-reader, unlike a multi-media device like an iPad or Android follow-on, is primarily used in "local" mode, not "surfing" mode. That is, for e-reader content, give me the content, and then I can snuggle up with it for a few hours or days. How different from the ADD world of the iPad user.
Kindle's 3G is all the more visionary in this context: 3G just works, and just works everywhere -- at minimum, delivering new content. WiFi -- not so much. WiFi requires conditional access, and pass codes, and complications. Yes, at hoe, it's easy ... but on the road? Not so much.
An e-reader is about reading: to paraphrase Shakespeare -- the screen's the thing. Who gives a whit about touch? Make the screen readable and portable and full of longevity and light-weight: Android-y nether-world screens hardly matter.
To say nothing of: Ola! There is a world of readers outside of the 48 contiguous United States ... Barnes and Noble has not yet figured that out, it seems.