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Originally Posted by Barty
I just don't have the manual dexterity to do any serial port hacking, so my jb'ed PW2 may be the last kindle device I own. If it breaks, I'm going to have to go the kobo route and deal with their somewhat flaky software and kepub file format.
You know I don't understand why Amazon cares about the few people who jailbreak their kindle anyway. I guess back in the day when you could use 3g they didn't want people to freeload on their network, but they put a cap on that. JB now is just about freedom and customization and has little if any impact on their business, so I don't know why they just don't look the other way. But no they have to be like every body else and be a d!#k about it and exert every last bit of control.
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I would bet it's at least partly because of customer service issues. Yes...they don't technically have to support anyone who has done a software mod on their device, but have you ever heard of them refusing to? (Even though I'm sure that they get LOTS of calls from people who have bricked their devices while messing with the software) Since the most positive thing that I hear from even the people who hate Amazon is how great their CS is, I figure they made a choice to lock it down more, thinking that doing so would create the less bad press than if they stopped supporting the people who have problems caused because of the mods.
Shari