So what? It sounds like it will greatly improve the browsing experience on a under-powered small-screen tablet. And it sounds like they have improved upon the Opera and RIMs implementations.
like having trouble with private intranet sites and VPNs
That's an edge case that could be ignored ("Kindle Fire is only intended for personal home use") or worked around (separate browser/browsing mode in those scenarios). EDIT: Reading below it sounds like they have an "off-cloud" mode.
because all the requests come from a few centralized IPs
Sure, it's been done. Why do consumers care? They don't really. Is this for news developers? because not much meat here for the dev crowd and they aren't announcing anything exciting here.
Also Amazon's cloud isn't so massively distributed that it's in every single location that some how makes GEOIP work which was the point.
So what? It sounds like it will greatly improve the browsing experience on a under-powered small-screen tablet. And it sounds like they have improved upon the Opera and RIMs implementations.
like having trouble with private intranet sites and VPNs
That's an edge case that could be ignored ("Kindle Fire is only intended for personal home use") or worked around (separate browser/browsing mode in those scenarios). EDIT: Reading below it sounds like they have an "off-cloud" mode.
because all the requests come from a few centralized IPs
Amazon's network is massively distributed...