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Old 11-04-2018, 11:26 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by 93terp View Post
Additionally, being tracked as "separate items for purposes of stock control" seems a totally absurd point to justify your position. If this were in fact true, I would not be able, with a click of button on my "Manage Content & Devices" page, to turn off SO on a purchased Kindle that was delivered with it enabled. There's no difference in hardware at all between the 2 configurations. But whatever, you're entitled to your opinion.
Seems to me that it's pretty essential to be able to separately keep track of devices that are sold at different prices. I'm certainly not disputing that they're identical hardware-wise, but they're supplied with initially different firmware. A Kindle bought with SO will display the "swipe to unlock" screen even if not registered to an Amazon account; a Kindle without SO will not. The fact that the SO status can be altered after purchase doesn't alter the fact that the devices are clearly not identical when shipped. Moreover, they revert to that initially distinct SO/non-SO status when you do a "Factory Reset", so the information must be present somewhere in the device itself.

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