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Originally Posted by Nightyume
No one is preventing people from using their device how they wanted if you think about it. When you buy a device you should buy it for what it can do RIGHT THEN, not what it will do in the future. If the device is too buggy at launch for you then wait and buy it when it has firmware that you like and can live with when it comes to existing bugs. Then when updates come out you can choose whether or not it is worth it to you to install them.
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This isn't actually the case. The only way you can choose to not install firmware updates on the Kobo is to never ever turn the wireless on. This means you can't sync your Kobo books & bookmarks, you can't update Reading Life, you can't buy Kobo books from the device, you can't grab Project Gutenberg books from the device, you can't add books with the Calibre content server, you can't use the browser, and so on. (Well, not unless after connecting you do a factory reset and re-install your chosen firmware version and re-load your books every single time - which is not a practical scenario). That's a fair bit of functionality gone.