Thread: Every firmware update makes the user experience worse, instead of better
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Old 03-15-2018, 06:31 AM   #24
davidfor
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Originally Posted by rcentros View Post
Okay, but it worked fine on the Glo (and on the Touch) and was (is?) still there ... somewhere ... and it wasn't like Kobo was spending a lot of their development time upgrading their Chess app anyhow. I think it bothered me more that I knew it was there but I couldn't get to it. I don't play many games either, but I did like to play Chess on the Glo (and now the Touch) from time to time.
And that's probably the point. They probably didn't need to do any work on it for a long time, but when they needed to do, the amount was more than they were willing to do. Or, maybe it was something else such as a license expired and they couldn't renew it.

Kobo did remove Chess from the beta page in one firmware and then it stopped working in a later firmware. It's likely they knew a change was coming and they weren't going to be able to support the Chess app after that. They might have had a last minute change that meant the time between these actions was more than they planned.
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