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Originally Posted by NullNix
Oh that's ridiculous. The business purpose of a Kindle to Amazon is not to be updated with firmware by them for nothing: that's a post-purchase support inducement to buy one in the first place, that's all: it's a *cost* to them, not a benefit. The business purpose of a Kindle to Amazon is to encourage people to buy books from them. That is all.
I just talked to a friend of mine at Amazon who works on the Kindle (well, worked: the Kindle team is rather shrunken at the moment due to emergency covid-19 redeployments). He laughed his head off when I suggested your definition of end-of-lifing, and noted that bugfixes are still released even to Kindles for which routine firmware releases have ceased if anything happens that stops you being able to use them to buy books (and, by implication, read them, since no-one would buy books they couldn't then read). He pointed at the DX as an example: no firmware updates for years, then a cert expired and bang, new update to fix that so it worked for its intended purpose again.
I suspect that *real* end-of-lifing for the older 3G-only capable Kindles (with no further firmware updates whatsoever, and no chance of using them to buy books, so you can only sideload and use whatever books are on it already) is going to come when 3G networks are turned off. I don't see that there's anything Amazon (or anyone) can do about *that*.
So, *according to the Kindle's own developers*, ceasing routine firmware updates is not end-of-lifing, and they still retain the capability to release further updates if needed. But no doubt the JSWolf Unique Definition will still stick because I'm not giving you enough details on who my friend is to let you impersonate him on national TV or something.
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So why didn't you ask your friend why the PW3 didn't get 5.12.5 but did get the crappy 5.12.4?