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There 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

by guyzero 11y ago

There 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 ago
FireOS 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.