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> He insisted on syncing over cellular, and he didn’t want to charge the customer for data. We told him it couldn’t be done, he did it anyway. This is really i
by jeffreyrogers 6y ago
> He insisted on syncing over cellular, and he didn’t want to charge the customer for data. We told him it couldn’t be done, he did it anyway.
This is really interesting. I wish he went into more detail about this.
- nevir 6y agoSome fun tidbits: Every Kindle had a unique phone number. By the time your Kindle shipped to you, it knew who its owner was, and had already logged you in and downloaded all your books. Any time we wanted to push updates to them, we'd SMS it (IIRC) and the Kindle would connect back to figure out what needs doing. Original Kindles had an (awful) web browser (and didn't charge for data). It was not bad at Google maps
- xyzzy_plugh 6y agoI recall shaving one or two bytes off one of the cell messages shaved something like $7MM off the monthly AT&T bill...