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Could Amazon Prime integration be more relevant than AWS integration? More services for consumers against fixed monthly fee.
by jpalomaki 6y ago
Could Amazon Prime integration be more relevant than AWS integration? More services for consumers against fixed monthly fee.
- cure 6y agoPerhaps. Or even just monthly internet passes, for when you go on vacation to a place without proper broadband. You don't have to go very far outside of cities in the US to end up in a completely underserved area.
- riffraff 6y agoyeah, this could be v2.0 of "kindle comes with global data connectivity".
- apendleton 6y agoThis service will operate in a similar band to Starlink, which requires a pizza-box-sized fixed receiver with a clear view of the sky. And SpaceX was only able to get it even this small due to development of new phased-array antenna technology, which, at least as far as we know, nobody else has replicated (at least at a consumer-accessible price point). All of which is to say: current technology, and physics, probably won't ever allow this to be baked into a Kindle.
- VectorLock 6y agoKindle's connectivity was really pushing the boundaries at the time, this would be on a whole different planet.