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Originally Posted by rcentros
And the Kindle 3 (Keyboard) is over a year older and still fully supported. And the Nook Simple Touch is a couple months older and it's still fully supported. But mostly, it's not that they are going to drop support (there hasn't been an upgrade for four years anyhow) it's that they're going to brick the device if you don't apply a seemingly useless upgrade. The nicer thing to do, for those who want to continue using the Mini for sideloaded books, would be to revert the factory reset to what it was originally. No registration required unless you want to use Kobo's Book Store. Then you could still use whatever firmware you wanted.
The other thing that's bothersome about this is that the original Kobo Touch is a year older, yet it will continue to get full support, including syncing and access to the Kobo Book Store. (You have to wonder for how long, though.)
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I'm not persuaded by hierarchies across platforms. Amazon knows full well how many Kindle Keyboards are still in use and it's worth their while to support it; once it isn't, they wont. I suspect the Mini was always the red-headed stepchild at Kobo, hence the lack of updated firmware for lo, these many years. I just don't feel any moral obligation on the part of the supplier to keep supporting a device that's antediluvian, as these things go. Again, I own and use my Mini, so I'm not best pleased, but I don't feel as if I've been traduced and betrayed, either.