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Mr. Goodbar · 07-30-2010, 10:20 AM

I've been away from the kindle ecosystem a bit and have just returned with the purchase of a DXG. I'm a little confused by the concerns on software updates. To my knowledge Amazon has kept the software functionality between their devices as identical as possible while differentiating on the hardware with screen size and memory. Why would we expect anything different this time around. To me it seems extremely likely that the new firmware is just not yet done and will roll out around the time of the k3 launch.

It seems like the DXG not getting the features is all just unfounded speculation, while the likelihood of it getting the update is based on Amazon's historical track record so far with software updates which has the devices at parity.

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Mr. Goodbar Wizard Posts: 1,005 Karma: 98078 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Atlanta, GA Device: iPad Mini 4	I've been away from the kindle ecosystem a bit and have just returned with the purchase of a DXG. I'm a little confused by the concerns on software updates. To my knowledge Amazon has kept the software functionality between their devices as identical as possible while differentiating on the hardware with screen size and memory. Why would we expect anything different this time around. To me it seems extremely likely that the new firmware is just not yet done and will roll out around the time of the k3 launch. It seems like the DXG not getting the features is all just unfounded speculation, while the likelihood of it getting the update is based on Amazon's historical track record so far with software updates which has the devices at parity. Last edited by Mr. Goodbar; 07-30-2010 at 10:22 AM.