[azalemeth]

I've never really understood why Amazon doesn't want people hacking with their devices. If I were them, making a Really Hacker Friendly Device would boost sales hugely, as people would start making 'cool things' with it. All of their devices are incredibly tied down, however, despite the promise of relatively cheap computing (I don't own any of them, out of privacy concerns).

[jdiez17]

They don't make a profit on device sales. They want you to use their cloud services.

[walterbell]

Apparently they aren't making enough money elsewhere either, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680904