Jeff Bezos: ‘Mistake to not pay attention to Wi-Fi’

Friday, September 7th, 2012 Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor

In this interview of Jeff Bezos on AllThingsD, he talks about the importance of Wi-Fi, in “Making Money While Keeping Prices Low: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Explains It All (Mostly)”

Question: You spent a lot of time going over Wi-Fi today. Clearly Internet access and accessibility is important.

Bezos: People don’t pay enough attention to [Wi-Fi]; it’s a mistake not to pay attention to it. These are connected devices. Think about it, you can buy more, but even just downloading photos from Facebook, how long do you want that to take? People have multiple devices these days, but they don’t necessarily want to download all their music to every device. But they do want to stream songs from any device they have with them. They also want to pull up Web pages fast — they go over Wi-Fi, too. It’s not just about buying things. These devices are not very useful unless they are connected to the Internet. The whole point is to connect to the Internet, and that means Wi-Fi. Even for 4G, you want Wi-Fi. You aren’t going to download a 3GB movie.

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