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Originally Posted by slayda
I don't expect them to change their ways. As I said in another thread, how long before they abandon the 505 & leave it's users high & dry. Also it was less than 2 years when Sony abandoned the 500. I got mine in Sept. 06, less than 2 years ago & I got mine very soon after it was introduced. And your HP-35 was the top of the line for more than 2 years I think before HP introduced the 45. I have no faith in Sony continuing to support their customers based on their past performance. They used us a test subjects for their new product - pure & simple.
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I see what you're saying, slayda, and I understand the logic, I just don't find it convincing is all.
I never expected them to do any sort of hardware upgrade on the 500, unpaid or otherwise. If something had proved defective on it, that'd be different, but this is just a generational growth: the new generation is more capable than the last. That's the way I look at it.
In any case, I'm pleased with the performance I've gotten out of my 500, in fact if these upgrades hadn't come along, I expect I'd
still be perfectly content with it, rather than drooling over a newer model. I figure we got what we paid for, and I doubt anybody seriously thought they were paying for perpetual upgrades to hardware,
or to firmware for that matter. If they did ... they probably shouldn't be trusted with credit cards, if you know what I mean.
I understand that you're saying that (not quite) two years is too quick to be obsoleted, but I don't see it that way either: computer hardware development moves
way too fast for me to expect that, and the Reader is a minor branch of that area after all. A two-year-old computer simply can't be made to do some of the things a new one can, but I don't expect HP or Dell or whoever to fix that for me.
A difference of perspective, I suppose.