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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I would be very surprised if they didn't eventually updated Kindle for Mac/PC to use KFX. Kindle for Mac/PC is certainly still under active development.
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I am curious why Amazon hasn't already updated Kindle for PC/Mac and the Download & transfer via USB function for Kindles to use KFX.
I doubt that it has anything to do with delaying the reverse engineering of the format. Reverse engineering is already possible using the Android, iOS and Kindle (Linux) implementations. And there is already a KFX renderer ported to PC/Mac as part of Kindle Previewer 3.
I also doubt that they are continuing to make KF8 available in support of users of the "tools" and calibre.
My best guess is that closing these loopholes is a low priority for them, but they will get around to it eventually in order to make book rendering more consistent across platforms and download methods.
At that point the use an older Kindle device (or a newer device with outdated firmware) will still make it possible to receive KF8/MOBI files for some people. I doubt that they will obsolete those devices (or force a required firmware update) any time soon.