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I find it pretty obnoxious that someone leaked this. This is classic "ruining it for everyone". That app, when I worked at Amazon, was open to any employee. It
by tylerrooney 15y ago
I find it pretty obnoxious that someone leaked this. This is classic "ruining it for everyone".
That app, when I worked at Amazon, was open to any employee. It would totally suck if they had to restrict access because of some idiot. I always thought it was pretty awesome that I could randomly query all sorts of data at Amazon.
- notatoad 15y agothis doesn't seem like the sort of leak that anybody is going to be too angry about.
- pavel_lishin 15y agoThe cynic's money is on this "leak" being a PR stunt.
- kenjackson 15y agoI usually don't go for the conspiracy theory. But my first thought after reading the stuff about the Fire was that I should probably get in my order for a second one soon if I want it to show up before the holidays. Although leaking the other Kindle data doesn't seem as convenient.
- chaz 15y agoPerhaps. But don't you think they can put out a press release that would be covered by every major newspaper, online and offline? Or Bezos could give an interview with the WSJ, NYT, or anyone he chooses. Why would they leak it CultofAndroid.com, a second or third tier niche tech blog?
- pavel_lishin 15y ago> Why would they leak it CultofAndroid.com, a second or third tier niche tech blog? I can't really answer that, but this article is currently #2 here. Can't argue with results, right?
- sliverstorm 15y agoI've never really known Amazon to be prone to that sort of thing
- tylerrooney 15y agoConsidering how tight-lipped Amazon is about everything (including the fact that they've never divulged the number of Kindles sold) I'd imagine Jeff Bezos and Tom Szkutak might be less than happy.
- notauser 15y agoPossibly they should be, this time, as the leaker has just given me (and every other Android developer) 2.5 million very good reasons to bother putting my app into the Amazon App store.
- bmelton 15y agoI applied for the Kindle Development Kit weeks ago and have yet to hear back. Good luck.
- davidw 15y agoThat's the Kindle development thing. It seems to be a black hole. Perhaps because it's based on some kind of bastardized J2ME tech, from what I understand, whereas the Fire is just Android, so you probably won't need that much special stuff to develop for it.
- underwater 15y agoIf they're selling a Kindle at the rate of almost one a second, then the stock levels should act as a timestamp. I wonder if Amazon log employee access to report pages.