What the heck? While Apple fights with the FBI to avoid creating software that will unlock an iPhone, Amazon has silently discontinued encryption in its Fire OS platform. As a reminder, Fire OS is the operating system Amazon uses on its popular tablets and lackluster Fire phone, which upgraded to version 5.0 back in September 2015. Amazon said that encryption was removed because customers simply weren’t using it.
Awareness of this feature removal surfaced earlier this …read more
