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That's pretty much the norm with mobile devices. With a PC, Windows, Mac, Applesoft, MS-DOS, CP/M, Unix, etc, the standard has always been to allow the user complete control. With mobile devices the standard has always been to try to prevent the user from having control.
I suspect the reason is that computers, at least in the early days, were designed with techies in mind and mobile devices were, from the start, designed for non-technical people and with the idea of protecting them from themselves.
With the Kindle, the more control and access they give their users the higher their support costs will be. Probably those costs are already pretty high given the quality of the support Amazon gives. Let us root it and it'll probably get a lot more expensive. And you know who really pays for that support!
Barry
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