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Fire tablets are $50 devices tied to Amazon accounts that people buy so their children can watch videos on a borderline-disposable device. Tell me where encryp
by guyzero 11y ago
Fire tablets are $50 devices tied to Amazon accounts that people buy so their children can watch videos on a borderline-disposable device.
Tell me where encryption fits into that use case.
- theklub 11y agoYeh, I was just about to post this. No one is buying these devices for security, or so they can keep files that would need to be encrypted.
- jethro_tell 11y agoMine has a couple apps and 12 gigs of 3 year old selfies.
- izacus 11y agoWhereever the user wants it to. You're essentially saying the users of those tablets shouldn't be able to protect them just because you can't see a usecase beyond "only children are using it".
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- bsamuels 11y agowho are you trying to protect your kids from? the government boogeyman?
- guyzero 11y agoThere are lots of other tablets. The Fire Tablet team has a finite amount of developer time to build features for their target users. Encryption is clearly not a feature they feel it's worth working on. With security features it's probably better to drop them rather than implement them poorly.
- philjohn 11y agoFireOS is a heavily skinned Android. That's it. Supporting it is free as FDE is built into Android. As someone else said, this is probably becauase their hardware is somewhat lacklustre (it's a $50 tablet, after all) and therefore the performance hit was hurting the end user experience to an unacceptable level.
- maxerickson 11y agoWhereever the user wants it to. I think GPs is opining on user attitudes more than they are saying anything about what they should be able to do with their tablets. If people buying $50 tablets don't care about FDE, it not being available isn't going to have much impact in the market.