The Inconvenient Truth about Amazon’s Whispernet

No one has forgotten Amazon’s unwelcomed and scary deletion of books from Kindle owners via their EvDO network, otherwise known as Whispernet. This has caused many people to be cautious of their kindle’s wireless capability and call for a change to the system. But the fact of the matter is that we want and we need Whispernet.

Added convenience
We need Whispernet because we are lazy and want a system that does everything for us. This convenience was one of Amazon’s selling points for the Kindle and rightfully so.I want to be able to set my kindle down and have it do its own updates like a NS-5 connected to VICKI and not bother me with the details.

We were warned.
The Kindle’s ability to connect to the Amazon mother ship not just for downloads, but for anything is something that didn’t go unnoticed. We were warned that this is not the greatest of ideas and Whispernet would let us read only what Amazon allowed us to read, but we didn’t care. We wanted it anyway.

So despite the violation of trust and invasion of privacy “misunderstandings”, I’d like to say thank you Whispernet, for giving us exactly what we wanted.