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Originally Posted by Lordvic
The original Kobo came out a while ago. The Wifi itself has been other at least a year. The technologies have advanced dramatically in the short time. Not just screen technology but processors, memory, and who knwos what else. You're not a developer for Kobo. It could very well be for the Kobo touch to handle all it does in the new firmware it's doing more stuff at a time than the processor on the old Kobo can handle.
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Not quite (dates according to Wikipedia):
- Original Kobo announced March 2010, available May 2010
- Kobo Wifi launched Oct 2010
- Kobo Touch announced May 2011, available June 2011
So the Original is a little then a year older then the Touch, and only 6 months older then the WiFi. In contrast, Apple just stopped supplying updates to my iPod Touch 2G (which dates back to 2008) because the hardware no longer supports the new software features.
I can understand that it is difficult to spread the development resource across the 3 products (plus the mobile platforms), particularly when the Touch has a very different interface. But it would be nice to think that your product has a slightly longer shelf life then 6 months.