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Since including a new font means a firmware upgrade it's a safe bet it's not cheap. You can be sure that every firmware upgrade involves hours and hours of testing by a lot of people. I'd be amazed if the cost of a firmware upgrade wasn't more than most of us make in a year. Amazon's firmware upgrades have been extremely reliable and that ain't cheap. So there'll be development and testing costs.
Waterproofing involves development costs and testing costs and production costs so maybe it'll cost more than a new font but I doubt the difference in cost is all that great.
I doubt Amazon saw any good financial reason to include a bold font. My guess is they did it to avoid complaints about lack of accessibility.
Barry
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