You do realize that the Kindle and the Kindle Fire are two completely different products right?
Are you talking about them crippling e-ink Kindles? Because if so, you are blatantly wrong - the newer versions are faster, crisper, lighter, better in just about every regard.
If you are talking about the Kindle Fire, then there is probably little to no overlap in the software running between them.
Completely different? No. The core e-reader features should have been identical. Searching an Amazon e-book, for example, should have simply reused to code they already had. Instead e-book searches on the Fire are not indexed, so there is no way to search your device for words or phrases. You cannot even use the fucking dictionary because it takes many minutes to do its linear scan.
The same thing is true for organizing books into collections. This was a solved problem. Even if Amazon could not reuse the GUI code, they had the existing collections GUI as a functional specification of what needed to be done. But no, instead my Fire gives me a giant pile of hundreds of unsearchable, unorganized e-books.
Or what about the synchronization feature? It lets you synchronize your notes, highlights, and last page read across all your Kindles. Amazon had solved this problem. They had working code that at the very least could have been used as a cheat sheet fore the Fire. But no, they managed to break that too.
The techmical execution of the Fire is the second most bot hed software product I have ever experienced, the worst being a video game from the 90s that I picked up remaindered for $2.
Are you talking about them crippling e-ink Kindles? Because if so, you are blatantly wrong - the newer versions are faster, crisper, lighter, better in just about every regard.
If you are talking about the Kindle Fire, then there is probably little to no overlap in the software running between them.