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Originally Posted by Tarana
Could be either. They weren't supporting anything older than 2014 according to the notice. So 5 years is going to be Kobo's limit for support. Amazon continues to support the Kindle 3 which I believe came out in 2009. 10 years. Heck, there was support for the Sony up until last year and that came out when? 2005? It's true that a lot of people don't see what the problem is - 5 years for an ereader, but clearly many last much longer than that. Forced planned obsolescence or just a bad choice of early software?
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The only Kobo eInk device they officially ending support for is the Kobo WiFi from 2010. I don't know if there is a technical reason or if it's simply that they know a very small percentage of those devices are still in use so chose not to do it for a financial/resources reason. Thankfully that device will still work in conjunction with the Kobo Desktop software. As far as the Sony devices I don't know if they could update those devices even if they wanted to or if they'd have to get Sony to be involved in that (not sure if Sony turned over firmware code, etc. to Kobo or not).
The Mini is from 2012 and as long as the user has it updated to 3.19.5760 will still be able to connect to the Kobo store and sync with Kobo (they aren't updating the firmware anymore, but others aren't updating a lot of their older devices, like the Kindle 3, either). The Kobo Touch is from 2011 and isn't on Kobo's list. The Glo is from 2012 and isn't kn Kobo's list. The Aura HD is from 2013 and isn't on Kobo's list.
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Originally Posted by the.Mtn.Man
To be fair, Amazon and Sony are much larger companies than Kobo with big revenue flows.
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Well, Rakuten isn't exactly small potatoes.
