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Originally Posted by Quoth
All the bits of you will have a referendum, but the government can veto if it decides the decision is not implementable?
MTP is not slower for file transfer, but with a large number of files it is much slower for a directory listing, unless the storage is slow.
The Fire is using Android, which is why it's MTP.
The apps on Android (inc Fire) don't use MTP. That's only for the host transfers. Sharing application code between the eink Kindle and Fire/Android is unrelated to MTP.
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The MTP client only has to get the directory listing one time, there is no need for the client to recurse through it with multiple calls. Kindle's accessible storage does not have millions of files so it is not a lengthy operation, in fact it is very fast.
The point about MTP is that client does not need to know anything about the OS, in fact it cannot know. So Amazon is free to use whatever file system or OS they like.
Sharing code can be done without MTP, obviously. But if they are moving to a common OS with Fire for that purpose, they would not be using anything other than MTP.
'I am Switzerland' is a metaphor for neutrality. No referendums are implied.