Anyone Here Work on Amazon Kindle Ios App?
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The question is: if you were an engineer who worked on this, are there some good reasons why it is this way? Am I missing something in Settings to get it back to be like it was? What happened to Kindle iOS app?
[While I originally started writign this earlier, John Carmack asked something similar recently on X].
The author laments the changes in the Amazon Kindle iOS app, citing a decline in user experience, and asks if anyone working on the app can provide insight into the design decisions behind these changes.
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