WTF?
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Originally Posted by Jesse83
They run a business... all these new "stuff" on the paperwhite that they use to advertise like time left in the book, or cover mode etc. Hell even new fonts... new fonts that we could get via the jailbreak. If they make it easy for you, how do they sell their next devices ?
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So you really think that we're doing this because we want to steal their fonts?!
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I mean the paperwhite is a good product, they don't have an infinite room for improvement from there. They are not just selling hardware, if they were you wouldn't be buying it, would you?
Someday they might be like "hey look at our Kindle 10, with personalized wallpapers" adding the all old "you asked for it and we listened" to keep a straight face and there you go. What do you think. They could even sell wallpapers for all they care.
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I'm buying it only for the hardware. And... come on, you really think there is almost no room for improvement? Just look at the stuff that I released for the Touch, and then repeat your statement. An actually usable way to manage Collections, patches that tremendously improve the usability of the reader (correct alignment, better dictionary lookup,...), to name just a few. These actually enhance the end user experience *a lot*, and the flaws that they fix are still present in the shiny new Paperwhite.
And the GUI launcher with all the different things that it allows to do, like... even playing games. A notepad...
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They sell millions of kindle every months. They are not gonna miss a couple of dudes that needs an e-ink computer.
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Well, since your assumptions are wrong anyway, it doesn't make sense to discuss this. No, they're not gonna miss us couple of dudes.
But if you take a look at the sheer number of debricks that were made to older devices - yes, especially the touch can simply "break" for no apparent reason, even without any jailbreak or customization; and that happens more often than you'd think - then we've actually saved Amazon money: we provided free customer support, and more than one Kindle that has been debricked using our help would have been sent back to Amazon for exchange otherwise.
So please, stop accusing us of being parasites. We're not. We're just trying to have a bit of fun for ourselves, and - as a byproduct - actually enhance the Amazon readers. And we're not trying to fuck with Amazon. Instead, for no particular reason, they decided to start fucking with us.