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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
And the ads. And making them device specific instead of account specific.. It just seems like the richest man in the world is nickle and dimeing people.
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I get the rest (I do wish the Kindles had better typography by default, for instance), but I don't really understand this bit. Of course they're device specific: it's the *device* that is the thing that was bought for a reduced cost in exchange for viewing ads, not the account. Both the ability to have multiple Kindles on one account, some with ads (bought at reduced cost), others not, and the ability to reregister a device to different accounts whenever you like, means the with-ads flag *must* be device specific.
Anything else would either lead to your being hit with ads on Kindles you paid full price for, or (erring in the other direction) would make it ridiculously trivial to pay the ad-supported price and then lose the ads by just reregistering to a different account. Both of these are a bad user experience, and would be even if the ads were a garden of delights that often suggested things you really wanted, which -- hilariously for Amazon, which more than any other company on Earth could easily do just that -- they really aren't.