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Originally Posted by bookyboy
You have no idea what resources it does or doesn't consume and/or what burden that places on Kobo's software team.
Kudos to them for supporting very old hardware, but please don't pretend that you have some intricate knowledge of what sacrifices they are or are not making to provide that support.
Try to be a bit more impartial in your analysis.
Honestly your posts sometimes come across as "homer for Kobo" posts.
These are mega corps - don't get too enamored with any of them.
Personally, I'm loyal to none of them and purchase and use what suits my needs and preferences best. I recommend all do the same.
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When Kobo has released newer firmware for newer devices and not the older ones (just yet), if you extract just the firmware and not the OS, it can be installed on some earlier devices. So to me that means that Kobo is making fairly compatible devices that don't need a lot of work to support (for the older devices).
I am allowed to like Kobo for keeping support of older devices. If I was using a Kindle, the device I would have had been using may no longer be supported. It's possible that the PW3 is now no longer supported. But my H2O from 2014 is fully supported.
Amazon has at least 9 devices that are end-of-lifed. So to me that means that when you buy a Kobo, it will last for a very long time before being end-of-lifed.
There are only two Kobo Readers no longer supported and those do not have touch. The Kobo Touch was released in June 2011 and it can still run the current firmware.