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Let the Dead Past Bury Its Dead

My old Gen 1 Kindle Fire hasn’t seen much action lately, so I figured maybe it could end its days by becoming a slide show / picture frame. While fiddling around, I tried to fire up the Amazon Shopping app:

Amazon App Unsupported on Amazon Gen 1 Kindle
Amazon App Unsupported on Amazon Gen 1 Kindle

Clicking the big orange button fired up Amazon’s Silk browser, which promptly crashed.

Some days, the punch line writes itself …