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.

Wirth's Law

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law