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Old 12-26-2015, 09:55 AM   #1
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Petition to Amazon for Kindle Jailbreak
Hi guys!
I just opened a petition at Avaaz.org to ask to Amazon to reintroduce the possibility to jailbreak kindles devices.

Have a look to it: https://secure.avaaz.org/it/petition..._customizable/
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Old 12-26-2015, 02:08 PM   #2
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No company is going to encourage jailbreaking their devices. Give it up.
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Old 12-26-2015, 02:37 PM   #3
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Worst Avaaz petitions site use ever
I'm an Avaaz active member... i prefear we use it for really important matters (eg.: COP21) and not for "personal use"... for craps there's Change.org
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Old 12-26-2015, 03:06 PM   #4
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You Don't like Kindles Buy another Brand! There are a Lot out there perhaps you find some thing you like Right out of the box.
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Old 12-26-2015, 04:10 PM   #5
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No company is going to encourage jailbreaking their devices. Give it up.
Not to encourage is not forbid. Apple and Google actually want that their systems can be "hacked".
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Old 12-26-2015, 04:25 PM   #6
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Not to encourage is not forbid. Apple and Google actually want that their systems can be "hacked".
See there you go! Buy one of them hack away!
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Old 12-26-2015, 06:57 PM   #7
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Not to encourage is not forbid. Apple and Google actually want that their systems can be "hacked".


Apple are the biggest control freaks ever.

They've been warring against jailbreakers since the beginning... Most iOS updates include mechanisms both to disable old JB methods and destroy running JBs.
Sometimes they destroy the phone too.
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Old 12-26-2015, 06:59 PM   #8
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Hi guys!
I just opened a petition at Avaaz.org to ask to Amazon to reintroduce the possibility to jailbreak kindles devices.

Have a look to it: https://secure.avaaz.org/it/petition..._customizable/
Why ask to be jailbroken? You'd be better off asking for the features you want. That way Amazon could still retain control.
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You'd be better off asking for the features you want. That way Amazon could still retain control.
You have a point here. Well, I personally want access to books by folders, not by collections, and a decent way to organize collections. As we all know, this may be the oldest request Amazon has got, and not honored yet. What makes you think Amazon is going to start this now?

What is left? Jailbreak. Personally, I prefer soft-, not hard-jailbreak. Or, abandon ship. Not an option, for a number of reasons I will not discuss here.
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Old 01-27-2016, 01:40 PM   #10
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I believe that jail breaking does more harm than good. And yes I have done it myself at times. But if it requires me to break open a sealed device then I find that totally stupid. I was a electronics Tech/engineer that once everything started to become a sealed device, I leaved the field and went on to become a software engineer. Now I do not program but I did a lot of QC to developers code, and believe you me they make mistakes. And it is still true for every bug found there are at least 100 more that have not been found yet. I know that there are programs now that can check the code, but there you get buggy coded programs trying to debug other buggy code. So you get even more buggy code.
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@cvkemp: Your argument is perfect against ANY use of computer technology. But, as all humans do mistakes, not only computer programmers, I prefer not to think this further.
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Old 01-27-2016, 04:01 PM   #12
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Why ask to be jailbroken? You'd be better off asking for the features you want. That way Amazon could still retain control.
These things are best left to the community to develop. Manufacturers rarely if ever produce software that satisfies all users. And they rarely listen.
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Old 01-28-2016, 06:19 PM   #13
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Amazon has always been customer focused, so I think it's a good thing to bring a petition like this to their attention. It would be so easy for them to do, too. Just add a page to the "manage your Kindle" page, some kind of legalese that says you waive your warranty, and poof, amazon uploads the developer certificate to the Kindle. Everyone's happy.
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