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Do you have a real source for this? That’s a pretty serious accusation.

• russdill 7y ago
  I'm guessing it's an ad supported kindle. The user paid less on the agreement that they would see ads. My non-ad supported kindle has never done anything like this.
  • 0xffff2 7y ago
    That’s fine, but until the FAA changes their policy, devices need to actually turn off their radios while in airplane mode. It’s not okay to lie to the user about things like that.
• lrem 7y ago
  Even if I went through the trouble of finding where he described it, you would get a pseudonymous guy on the Internet saying a thing, instead of a pseudonymous guy on the Internet mentioning an anonymous guy told him something. So, well, apply your pinch of salt. But I remember it pretty cleanly, as it did shock me a bit. As others suggested: it was an app-supported Kindle indeed. So it's not like Amazon went crazy unprovoked evil or something. Edit: I've checked with my wife who has an ad supported Kindle for over a year and keeps it in flight mode for months at a time. It never did that to her. So either Amazon changed that a long time ago, or I've believed a lie.
  • 0xffff2 7y ago
    It’s not the evil of displaying ads, but the evil of connecting while in airplane mode that bothers me. I don’t personally believe that it’s actually going to crash a plane, but until the FAA agrees with me devices shouldn’t be connecting while claiming to be in airplane mode. I’ll have to dig into it a bit, but I expect that doing so is a violation of FAA or more likely FCC regulations.