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Originally Posted by eureka
No, not really. I'm not defending Amazon or Jesse83, but Kindle without software, provided by Amazon (imagine fully erased, blank internal eMMC or, not so radically, eMMC with standard Freescale BSP), would be just a good development board in pretty case, not a customer-ready eReader with some [UI] flaws. If you've bought development board, then, even in case of PW, you still can access it through serial port.
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OK, let me rephrase: I bought it for the hardware and OS, but not for buying shitloads of e-books from Amazon (which actually is the only purpose of the reader, from Amazon's point of view). I bought exactly one book. Otherwise, what I'm reading on it is free and sideloaded.
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And, then, you are providing an easy way to disable Special Offers with JBPatch. What did you expect from business owners? "Ah, nevermind! We don't need revenue from ads, these homebrew developers are good guys, so let's keep status quo."
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They don't get revenue from the ads. If I merely see the ad, they get no revenue at all. And since I'm not buying anything based on the ads, I can just as well not see them. (and... jbpatch wasn't the first method to remove the SOs. There actually is a method which doesn't even require the jailbreak at all - what now? Are all Kindle owners potential criminals?).
And anyway, just because the jailbreak ALSO allows to do exactly one thing that some consider "evil" or "stealing" (no, I don't), but many other things that make the device more attractive and actually help Amazon, they show us the middle finger?
Finally, I'd bet that the lockdown would also have happened if there hadn't been any Special Offer devices, so the only weak argument of the "developers are evil, we need to lock down our device" proponents is futile.