[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] porkenhimer:
Theres is also nothing wrong with trying to mod your fire TV, but don't complain if you do not get the results you wanted. It was a great example, cause I likened it to the fact that you knew what you were buyng when you bought your Fire TV and should not complain after buying it just because you cannot achieve root, just as if you bought an RX7 and got mad cause it couldn't outrun a Lambo. Like I said, if you want root, cool, but in no way does anyone deserve to have it. If someone works to find an exploit and shares it with us that would be awesome, but having root is not something you need in life. You deserve to live a happy life with all the your rights and privileges of a human, and having root is not on that list of deserved things in life. You're just taking it wrong. You think I am saying we should not have root, but I'm not, I am saying it is not something that we deserve simply by making a purchase. The only thing we deserve by making the purchase of a Fire TV is that it works as advertised, that they give us quality service if needed and that they honor our warranty. If we deserved root for the Fire TV simply by buying it than they would have told us that before we bought it. I think people get the wrong idea about things that they purchase. If you buy something you buy that product and nothing else. A good example is the Apple TV 3. Do the people that bought the Apple TV 3 deserve a jailbreak? No, but it would be nice to have, and at the same time the people that purchased the device knew that it may never come. I am in no way saying we should not have root. I am saying its not something we deserve simply by the fact that we buy a device. He said "we deserve to have root" and I replied sayin we didn't, and there is not one thing wrong with me saying that. If you deserved root we could sue Amazon for not providing it, but since it not deserved simply by way of purchase then we cannot sue Amazon if we never get it. Its like when Apple tried to get the government to make jailbreaking their ios devices illegal, the government said it was legal, but they should do whatever they wanted to do to stop people from doing. Its the same with the fire TV, they do not want us to root it so they have took steps to stop us from doing it, and that in itself should tell anyone that rooting the Fire TV is not somethin that is deserved simply by making the purchase. I have made it beyond clear what I meant so if you still wanna be mad then be mad, cause thats on you.

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Amazon allowing root would defeat the whole purpose of the device. Amazon is a busiiness and the Fire TV is a tool for them to make money and grow the Amazon Prime service, and allowing root would make them the dumbest company in the world. Same reason Apple does not want you to jailbreak, they made their device to be 100% Apple and by jailbreaking it, it means Apple is losing money. Everytime you buy an app from the App Store, Apple gets a cut, but when you get things from Cydia they get nothing, so thats why they do not want you to jailbreak and thats why Amazon does not want you to root. The Fire TV in my opinion is not a true android device even though it runs Android, it an Amazon device. Meaning everything in the system is built with their company in mind. From the home launcher, to the fact that they do not come with the Play Store. Its an amazon device and they wanna keep it that way, so never in a million years woud they allow us to root. The whole no warranty if you root is something that has worked for a lot of companies. I see people on the regular still saying they won't root because of their warranty. Its the on thing these companies can do to stop people from rooting, but it does not work for everyone. I sent a rooted Galaxy Note to Samsung to have the screen replaced because it had screenburn and they replaced it on warranty and never said anything about it being rooted. Its clear that they knew it was rooted cause they swicthed a lot of my settings and even installed some Samsung apps on it before sending it back. I think a lot of the time its more the person, cause some people would rather have their warranty than have root so they do not want to take the chance of losing their warranty by rooting. Good companies will never allow rooting, but chinese comanies that are selling cheap droids just to make money will.