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Originally Posted by eschwartz
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Unlike some tech companies  Amazon doesn't actually go to strenuous efforts to wipe out jailbreaks -- they just trample roughshod over the JB as a side effect of other things. |
Another factor that may be in-play:
The Kindle + Amazon firmware ==> a lock-in to the Amazon store.
The Kindle + Doukan project ==> a lock-in to the Doukan store.
The lock-in to an on-line store is a recurring revenue.
The design, development, production of the Kindle hardware is a (one time) major cost.
The sales of the hardware is a one-time revenue. Although Amazon's books are closed (no pun intended), it is hard to imagine that their hardware sales come anywhere close to recovering that cost. (It was, originally, a loss-leader marketing research tool.)
What for-profit organization that paid that major cost would be willing to give up that recurring revenue to another for-profit organization that did not pay any part of that cost?
They now have a device which can avoid the hijacking of those recurring sales by all except the very few with the hardware skills to open it up and modify the hardware (I.E: add serial port connections).
If they where serious about denying all access, they would have dropped the serial port pin-out long ago.
And their tactics seem to have worked, the Doukan project, **as a commercial enterprise** certainly appears dead.
Lucky for the start-up owners, they got Doukan sold just before Amazon killed off the (easy), closed-kindle, software jail break(s).
Perhaps it is because I live in a capitalist country, but I think it is all about the money.
Not about us hobbyists.