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Originally Posted by Nate the great
I find it encouraging that y'all have provided such absurd examples. This suggests that my arguments are not so unreasonable. I will state my position again:
I do not expect Sony to release updates. But, if they do, I expect Sony to release updates for both the 500 and the 505. If Sony releases an update for one device but not the other, then Sony has in effect abandoned the other device.
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No no no. I find your inability to comprehend what I have written discouraging because you are a key figure of the largest ebook advocacy group on the internet.
Let's start with a simple syllogism: The 500 is different from the 505. Software made specifically for one device cannot necessarily work on a device that is different. The updates on the 505 cannot necessarily work on the 500.
With me so far? Sony could very well release an update for the 500, but it wold very likely need to be a completely different update. Your logic goes like this: Sony released an update for the 505 that has allowed it to reflow PDF files and read the epub format. They have not released an update for the 500 that would make it slightly faster and perhaps provide the ability to delete books from the device. They have abandoned the 500.
Your 500 still works, you can still buy books from Sony's store, Sony still supports and sells the PRS line. There is no reason to be angry with Sony. Abandoning a device is not the same as not releasing a small software update to the device. If I understand your position you don't expect the 500 to be able to do what the 505 can, but because Sony hasn't added the little features like deleting books from the device to the 500 they have abandoned it even though those features are hardly worth the trouble of creating a whole firmware update and aren't that useful to most people, you think that they've betrayed their consumer base?
If you could actually respond to the points that have been made I'd be glad to continue this discussion, but you haven't exactly responded to anything that's been said other than "[stating] your position again" (which was
very enlightening the third time around I may add) so if you persist in spouting your "f**k the corporate world, bitch, I'ma gonna build a ereader out of hemp and I'm gonna release a firmware update everyday and I will give it away for free because it will be a labor of love akin to the noble pursuits of Robin Hood," then I don't see what more I can say.
Sony has acted quite admirably in releasing an update for the 505 and the 500 doesn't need an update because it is stupid and can only support stupid baby features on its little baby processor.