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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But why isn't Bookeen telling people of the 538 firmware for those that have the older version at the least? It is silly that people have to read about it on a non-Bookeen run/supported forum and then have to go request to get it.
I would not be very happy with Sony if they had a newer firmware that fixed some bugs and never customers about it.
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I have a feeling they didn't test the 538 build much, thery just fixed the bugs, and a programmer ran the build and checked that the bugs no longer happen. One programmer, on one Cybook.
So they didn't know if they didn't introduce a serious bug somewhere, something that would brick the device indefinitely, and that luckily didn't do it on programmer's Cybook. If they released it to the public, and then next day got 5 thousand reports of bricked device, you'd agree that wasn't a safe thing to do?
So they only released it to a few customers at a time, only to ones that were complaining, thinking that either it'll fix the bugs and work, or if it bricks the Cybook, there'll be only one angry customer.
And they released it to more and more people, and I think they're probably now convinced it's stable and safe - but the testing process of the official build may be now quite close to completion, so it makes more sense to release the official one.