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Originally Posted by TimW
The message on mine says: "Changes to allow application to continue working past July 21, 2012." I'm running version 1.4.0, I assume that's why it reads differently. It's reasonable to expect that the old version will no longer function after 7/21. At the very least, I won't be able to download new books from 'Zon unless I update.
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That's sort of what I'm expecting. Not earth-shattering, by any means, but it
will (if it turns out to be true) mark the first time Amazon has rendered any version of the K4* software obsolete (even partially) since its inception. It probably
had to happen some time though.
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Originally Posted by jswindon
I guess Amazon is going to attempt to gain more control over our use of the K4PC and K4Mac apps, probably in order to squash the use of tools at some point. I hope that is not the case, but I suspect it is. I'm guessing that older versions of the app will still be able to view side-loaded Kindle books but not be able to download from or Whispersync with Amazon. But that is just a guess.
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I don't really see it as any preemptive strike against circumvention tools,
per se. But rather, one more logical step in the controlled (but unhurried) migration away from the traditional MOBI format. You can't ultimately hope to phase it out while millions of apps are still clamoring to download it. It may result in having the same ultimate effect of rendering the tools "squashed" somewhere down the road. But I don't think that's the driving force.