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Originally Posted by Conan46
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The phrase: "your Kindle will stop working"
is like a newspaper headline.
Vastly abbreviated.
If not updated, your Kindle:
- Will no longer be able to impulse (one click) purchase books from our store - instead you will have to use your computer and have time to think before sending us more money.
- All of the market research data being gathered by our Kindles will no longer be able to be sent to Big Brother.
- We will no longer be able to force feed you an OTA update without your permission.
This has the added hazard that the device owner may get the idea that they own both the device, and the device's behavior.
- You will not be able to store things on our cloud, where they are easy for us to study and data mine.
In fact, you might have to use somebody else's cloud service (supported @MR since days of the KT).
- Person's who saved $20 by buying an 'ad supported' (Special Offers) Kindle will be stuck forever looking at the same ads - your Kindle will no longer be able to download our newer ads.
(Well, maybe that could be called: "Your Kindle will stop working.")
- Geesh - I can't think of any more things that aren't a downside for Amazon and an upside for the user if they don't update.
So yes, an:
"Amazon Emergency"
for their present and future revenue streams.
The user will still be able to read e-books with the Kindle.
No chance of a "blank screen" as mention in one of the links posted above.