 Permalink for comment 534669 Aren't Ads the Whole Point with a
Fire? by jburnett on Mon 10th Sep 2012 23:43 UTC Member since:
Isn't the whole point of buying the Kindle Fire to get an Amazon
integrated environment? It isn't what I want for me, but I'm a
developer. My cousin got one for his daughter, she loves it. It
is exactly what he wanted for her. Ads are a big part of that
environment.  I get the complaint. Amazon is telling us where we
would probably like to spend our money. But the alternative is
what exactly? Only read what friends recommend? Only watching
what friends and family recommend? Pay for a newspaper and read
the ads there instead.  As near as I can tell the ads are not
intrusive and do not slow anything down. They are just on the
lock screen. What do I care about the lock screen. If it has the
date/time and a button to unlock, everything else is just a
background image to me.  Unless my basic assumption is wrong and
you have to wait x number of seconds or click through some ad to
use your