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Old 05-04-2018, 11:19 AM   #220
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Originally Posted by rcentros View Post
Amazon no longer updates firmware for the Kindle 1,2,3,4 and the original Touch (and maybe the original Paperwhite?). It doesn't seem unreasonable for Kobo to drop firmware updates for some of their older readers (they've already done it for the Mini and Wireless). This would probably make life a lot easier for them.
Not necessarily so. Sometimes companies don't do updates because they want to sell new version. NT4.0 SP7 had excellent USB support. It was never released for fear of "holding back" Win2000. Also DirectX versions.
Apple deliberately forces App developers to drop support for older iOS (hardly any Apps are supporting older than iOS9) and deliberately drops support for "older HW", so many decent iPhone are stuck on iOS7 or iOS8 and can't install extra apps.

Brand new releases of Linux, Mate Desktop and new applications inc Flatpak apps, do work on 16 year old hardware, and indeed even older if you have enough RAM (About 1/16th of what Win10 needs!) and don't mind a little slow.
Amazon uses a custom shell on Android for the Kindle eInk HW (Kernel only is real Linux). Doesn't Kobo use a more stock Linux, so has not the same Google enforced constraints of the Kindle HW?
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