I have to confess I'm astonished that, if the article is accurate, there's no way to turn off 1-Click purchasing on a Fire aside from deregistering it from your Amazon account. That would give me serious pause about buying such a device, since it opens up your Amazon account to spending from kids you've loaned the Kindle to, or from thieves who grab it from you. Or, heck, from prankish co-workers or roommates. That's just dumb. #ddtb
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There are a lot of ways to turn off 1-click and add parental controls. The author of the article must've tried pretty hard to ignore them. http://fireapps.blogspot.com/2011/12/preventing-unintentional-purchases-and.html
I think that's fair. I wonder if Amazon originally thought users wouldn't mind being so locked into their ecosystem.
Interesting. That's very good to know.
Though the article leaves me with the impression that this is kind of backfilling after the fact. Parental Controls is a "new" feature? An experimental app? A "great new way" to do it from the Amazon site? I'd have expected this functionality to be robust and out-of-the-box when the Kindle Fire debuted.
Well, being locked into the Amazon ecosystem is certainly a concern I have (I love to visit, frequently, even chronically, but I like to be able to leave when I want).
My suspicion is that they just didn't think of people loaning (or losing) their Fires, but instead were trying to make things as convenient and painless to the owner as possible. Which isn't a bad goal, to be sure, but not very realistic.