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Hmmm... I'm generally pretty harsh with Amazon/Lab126 and their software, because I dislike their closed-source close-mindedness.
And I can't really say anything about Kindle Fires - I've never even seen one in real life...
But I do think they did a pretty good job in keeping the more or less recent e-ink Kindles up-to-date:
* Kindle 3 (Keyboard) was given a rather major update a year and a half (or so) ago which brought support for KF8 (.azw3) books. That's a move that nobody really expected at the time, because most people thought the K3 was abandoned.
* Kindle 5 (Touch) was given an update which makes it look and behave pretty much like the Paperwhite, again when people already thought it was no longer maintained. And it received another update quite recently.
* Well okay, on the K4 front, there hasn't been much happening - but then again, the software's already quite feature-complete as it is.
So I'm actually expecting the PW1 to get a few updates which will keep it more or less on par with the PW2 for the next year or two. But of course, that's just speculation - nobody here really knows.
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