Originally posted by: boomhower
My simple question is why not drop 3G and use wifi. Then they do not have to pay for the bandwidth so they can lower the prices back to more realistic levels. College students all have wifi. Most other buyers are going to pretty tech informed and could connect the device to a wifi network. I just think its an easy place to save money.
Originally posted by: jonesthewine
Originally posted by: boomhower
My simple question is why not drop 3G and use wifi. Then they do not have to pay for the bandwidth so they can lower the prices back to more realistic levels. College students all have wifi. Most other buyers are going to pretty tech informed and could connect the device to a wifi network. I just think its an easy place to save money.
I don't think that the college student demographic is the target audience with the kindle - more affluent upper middle class and beyond seems to me the target, and 3G means "connect anytime, anywhere" , which to me is one of the biggest selling points. On the beach, in a car while someone else is driving, etc...
Originally posted by: boomhower
Originally posted by: jonesthewine
Originally posted by: boomhower
My simple question is why not drop 3G and use wifi. Then they do not have to pay for the bandwidth so they can lower the prices back to more realistic levels. College students all have wifi. Most other buyers are going to pretty tech informed and could connect the device to a wifi network. I just think its an easy place to save money.
I don't think that the college student demographic is the target audience with the kindle - more affluent upper middle class and beyond seems to me the target, and 3G means "connect anytime, anywhere" , which to me is one of the biggest selling points. On the beach, in a car while someone else is driving, etc...
For the DX it certainly is. For the kindle 2 I would completely agree but not on this on.
Originally posted by: ViRGE
If it just wasn't so expensive, I'd pick one up.
Originally posted by: gorcorps
Originally posted by: boomhower
Originally posted by: jonesthewine
Originally posted by: boomhower
My simple question is why not drop 3G and use wifi. Then they do not have to pay for the bandwidth so they can lower the prices back to more realistic levels. College students all have wifi. Most other buyers are going to pretty tech informed and could connect the device to a wifi network. I just think its an easy place to save money.
I don't think that the college student demographic is the target audience with the kindle - more affluent upper middle class and beyond seems to me the target, and 3G means "connect anytime, anywhere" , which to me is one of the biggest selling points. On the beach, in a car while someone else is driving, etc...
For the DX it certainly is. For the kindle 2 I would completely agree but not on this on.
Why would the DX appeal to college kids more? The only way it would is if they could store their textbooks on it, but without a full color screen a lot of textbooks would be useless. At that price and what it does I don't think college is their demographic at all. If it is, they fucked up something awful.
Originally posted by: Kaido
Originally posted by: ViRGE
If it just wasn't so expensive, I'd pick one up.
This is the #1 complaint I've heard from everyone. If they lowered the Kindle 2 to $49 and the Kindle DX to $99, I bet every student would have one, despite being new-ish technology.
Originally posted by: Deeko
Originally posted by: Kaido
Originally posted by: ViRGE
If it just wasn't so expensive, I'd pick one up.
This is the #1 complaint I've heard from everyone. If they lowered the Kindle 2 to $49 and the Kindle DX to $99, I bet every student would have one, despite being new-ish technology.
There isn't going to be an e-ink reader for $50 any time soon. Especially not one that has a browser and unlimited 3G access.
Originally posted by: Deeko
There isn't going to be an e-ink reader for $50 any time soon. Especially not one that has a browser and unlimited 3G access.