To a point; for the vast majority of users, the increase in hardware requirements for modern desktop tasks plateaued quite some time ago. The exception to this is video games; they've continued to drive hardware advancement on the desktop.
Mobile devices are nearly on par with where that plateau began, and there are plenty of reasons to increase the CPU/GPU performance for the purpose of games. In this context, it certainly appears to me that Amazon is wasting their resources on what amounts to a massively complex privacy snafu.
The devices are fast enough, but with that speed came massive battery life problems. Therefore, the same problem exists, its effects have just moved somewhere else. It is therefore not comparable with the desktop.
