[citation][nom]sundragon[/nom]Hi - interesting point, I have a few questions:Where are you coming up with $80?Why would Amazon start charging for something and kill their business?Their current price has profit coming from consumption of their current ecosystem built into it - So unless the business model flops and people don't use Amazon services there is no reason to start charging.[/citation]
the device comes with amazon prime (1 month trial) which gives you access to their cloud services (eg storing music and other files on their servers)
their browser also uses their servers to handle the CPU intensive parts of loading a webpage (this makes loading websites faster, similar to what was done with skyfire http
/www.skyfire.com/)
It is not clear if the browser requires amazon prime to maintain access to their servers. if it requires it then you will have a device that requires you to spend $80 a year for amazon prime.
Also in the demo videos, most of the features that they showed off were cloud based features (meaning if the selling point is what they showed off mostly, then you will have to pay $80 a year to continue using those features).