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Old 06-18-2015, 07:08 PM   #89
eschwartz
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But it did become obsolete.
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Amazon is different than other companies (except Apple as they have the same mentality). Amazon has a "We are not going to support the older hardware even if we can" mentality. Hecki, Even Sony was able to ad some version RMDSK to the 500 in order to get ePub support. The DX could have had firmware updates to add new features and maybe it would have sold better, but once new features came out and the DX didn't get them, it wasn't worth buying.
You seem to feel that when Amazon stopped updating the DX, it became useless.
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But Amazon did dump the DX and stopped updating it. So it became a rather large doorstop.
Yet again you're talking absolute garbage. The DX didn't stop working once Amazon stopped selling it.
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You are categorically wrong.
It did not become useless. It became a legacy device without new features, that still has perfectly good hardware and integration with the Kindle Store.
Call it obsolete if you will -- any old device will fit that shoe. I am typing this on an 11-year-old computer, every component in it is "obsolete", yet it runs perfectly well on a bleeding-edge operating system.


Given that Amazon does not have a magic wand that they can wave over all the DXes in the world to make them new, no kidding they are obsolete. My Kindle Touch is obsolete. What is your point?
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