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Old 07-29-2010, 02:31 PM   #14
johndoesecond
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Originally Posted by zetareticuli View Post
I would imagine that the old DX will get it too although my question was about the Graphite model. I don't see any logic in not doing it for the previous versions.
Hm, not so sure.

There might be a logic:

1) economics: they want you to buy the new one

2) hardware/software: old kindles may be different in some respect and have problems running new features (especially native Adobe technology) out of the box

3) economics, again: if point 2) is at least slightly true, Amazon may find it uneconomic to "backport" the new firmware; if it is false, they may still claim it's true and therefore uneconomic or impossible to have new firmware running on old machines; so as to (make you, the customer) fall back to point 1).


I hope they make this firmware upgrade for oldies, but I do think there may be a logic if they don't.

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