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Originally Posted by saoir
My experience is the opposite.
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Fair enough. The pleasure that I get from using a Kindle Fire doesn't mean it has to be the same for you.
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Originally Posted by saoir
Amazon adds nothing to Android...
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There is an interesting assumption built-in to this sentiment: that Amazon must add something to the Android OS/experience. They take AOSP and move in a direction that makes sense to them and I do not believe one of their goals is to "add" something to Android. They are concerned with their experience, not everyone else's. So this is a weird presumption to make and a strange complaint to leverage against them.
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Originally Posted by saoir
...because it is such a ghastly OS to start with.
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If by ghastly you mean smooth, beautiful, interesting, and a pleasure to use, then I totally agree with you.
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Originally Posted by saoir
The results are products that are barely worth the money and really only suitable as children's toys.
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This may surprise you, but I think you might have accidentally tapped in to what Amazon has historically tried to do with their tablets: to streamline the consumption of content (specifically THEIR content). And they have done this religiously. It is evident at every point in their vision of what Fire OS is. Only recently have they begun to make an attempt to leverage office and home office/productivity tasks as a tool in their offerings (and I mean VERY recently).
I suppose you could call content consumption a children's activity (which you didn't, but may have done by extension) and label the devices designed specifically to accomplish this task as "children's toys", (which you did do) but I'm not sure it is a logical thing to do.