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Originally Posted by tomsem
That's a good point, I suppose a few apps might break.
But that doesn't stop Apple and other Android vendors from pushing OS updates: users expect them to do so, and most look forward to it: new features, for 'free'! And while apps do break, most app vendors scramble to deliver fixes. In this case, the apps should already be ready for 4.x if they were updated for the newer Kindles. And OS updates are done at the discretion of the user; they update if and when they are ready to.
So what is not possible about this?
And are there any Fire 1g owners who would not want this option?
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It goes farther than just apps. See, the problem is that Amazon quickly rushed the first version to production hardware-wise. They used a cheap light sensor (which they just phased out completely after update number one because it just plainly didn't work because it was so cheap), they didn't bother with volume controls, and they got us with a really cheap charging port that was wobbly and hard to deal with for some of us.
The charging situation on XDA ROMs has recently been fixed, but it took a lot of work, like an entire year even - They had to rewrite the entire driver from scratch. Amazon doesn't have the time to do something like this to make it work with ICS, and obviously they made a lot of changes in coding theirs to make it work the way they want. Literally one of the first things they noticed at XDA is that the open source code they have to supply doesn't even compile.
But the real issue is the fact that our RAM spec isn't designed for ICS (the code doesn't support it). It works fine, but you have to workaround to make things work. Especially with how lagging the Amazon launchers are, you don't want to pile that on top of weak hardware. You also don't want to release something that doesn't work very well in testing stages, which I'm pretty sure Amazon is doing/did do, but it's not meeting their standards.
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Originally Posted by ApK
Are you sure? When did this start? My son's version 1 was replaced in mid-December after a week or so wait to get them back in stock, and he got a refurbed version 1.
ApK
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Probably this month. I've heard of two cases where people are getting the upgrade.