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Originally Posted by Jessica Lares
It goes farther than just apps. See, the problem is that Amazon quickly rushed the first version to production hardware-wise. They used a cheap light sensor (which they just phased out completely after update number one because it just plainly didn't work because it was so cheap), they didn't bother with volume controls, and they got us with a really cheap charging port that was wobbly and hard to deal with for some of us.
The charging situation on XDA ROMs has recently been fixed, but it took a lot of work, like an entire year even - They had to rewrite the entire driver from scratch. Amazon doesn't have the time to do something like this to make it work with ICS, and obviously they made a lot of changes in coding theirs to make it work the way they want. Literally one of the first things they noticed at XDA is that the open source code they have to supply doesn't even compile.
But the real issue is the fact that our RAM spec isn't designed for ICS (the code doesn't support it). It works fine, but you have to workaround to make things work. Especially with how lagging the Amazon launchers are, you don't want to pile that on top of weak hardware. You also don't want to release something that doesn't work very well in testing stages, which I'm pretty sure Amazon is doing/did do, but it's not meeting their standards.
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Ok, thanks for that detail. All my remaining hope has been successfully extinguished.
That said, it still wouldn't be all that compelling a device for me (the sour grapes argument). I'll probably wait for the next generation Fires, Nexus etc before getting another tablet.