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Old 04-14-2017, 10:26 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by petercreasey View Post
Thanks for the follow up dialogue.

Okay, the reason I'm curious is that I've seen discussions about multiple releases from other affiliates that provided improvements.

Yet, when I have my KA1 go to kobo.com for syncing, none of these newer versions are made available to me.

It seems that if the versions are good enough to go to affiliates, then they should be provided at some point at kobo.com and they haven't been...at least not to my KA1. At kobo.com, I'm still stuck on 4.3.8945.

Just seems curious so I thought I would ask what the possible reason is for kobo.com to keep some users so far behind.

If this question was asked before, then I missed it and any "why for" explanations.
What you're missing from what David said is that ALL AFFILIATES get the update from kobo.com. The ONLY place the updates come from is kobo.com. The updates are rolled out to devices on a schedule that is known only to Kobo...some people install the updates to their devices manually by downloading from kobo.com to their PC and loading it to their reader over USB. You've stated that you don't want to do this...and that's fine. It does, however put you at the mercy of Kobo's rollout schedule, which, again, nobody but Kobo knows the details of.

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