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Originally Posted by Tiersten
That isn't very fair though. It is very rare when a feature even in software is actually free. They have to follow a much stricter process to implement it which can't have any possibility for breaking the Kindle or causing it to act oddly whilst also being easy to use and completely fool proof. Add in QA, support and documentation costs. The hacks don't have any of that.
I can see people complaining because it doesn't work properly as they've dumped their entire unresized photo collection in there or the files aren't the correct ratio so they're not full screen etc...
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I realize that, which is why I stated that what I actually sent was nicer than that.
The problem is, their response didn't contain any of the completely valid reasons you mentioned. I suspect two things here - The first is that they may be doing it for branding purposes (the darned dead author images are now nearly as famous as the Kindle). The second is the fact that the built-in screensaver system does not use the userstore and they want to keep it that way for a possible variety of reasons. We already know that the Kindle can display images, and people are already doing the things you mentioned (unresized, etc) because that functionality exists - it just isn't tied into the screensaver function. Yet.