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It does have Wifi, but not 3G (which I personally I think is overkill for a reading device). You can plug SD cards into it to extend the space, and with books
by acabal 15y ago
It does have Wifi, but not 3G (which I personally I think is overkill for a reading device). You can plug SD cards into it to extend the space, and with books weighing in at a few hundred KB, for the vast majority of people space isn't an issue.
- achompas 15y agoNot to get too nitpicky here, but bookmarking twitter.com/longreads and reading excellent long-form articles on the go is an excellent Kindle use case. This was another selling point for me over the NST.
- rubinelli 15y agoPoe's Law: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257&tid=107 http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257...
- rmc 15y agoMy quote is from the Slashdot review of the announcement of the iPod (http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ipod http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ip...). It's an example of where (usually) geeks fall into the trap of enumerating the raw engineering facts and think those raw engineering facts are what will decide the matter. In truth, it's more than feature checklists. Marketing and social factors can play a large part in the success of a large product.