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Originally Posted by murraypaul
How many people outside of this forum do you think actually give a damn about any of this?
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People not in the computer biz aren't even going to know or care that "firmware updates" with version numbers on are even a thing on Kindles, even if they know they are on other things. My mother doesn't know about that sort of thing (I just checked) and she's a trained physicist and mathematician with someone who *is* in the biz for a son and still reads scientific papers for fun, and *does* know what version of Android her tablet is running. If someone as geeky as that just sees a Kindle as a thing that lets you buy and read books and occasionally pops back to the home screen on its own (that would be an autoreboot, possibly accompanied by a firmware update) and gains new features now and then (she hadn't noticed this was correlated with reboots), more or less *everyone* is going to see it that way, I reckon.
Kindles are devices to read on. That's all. The only reason they were ever successful is that they are not general-purpose computers and you're not meant to have to care about what firmware version they're running or anything like that, any more than the user of a normal computer desktop has to care about the precise version of the C library or the precise build number of the OS kernel. If a normal user experiences behavioural degradation noticeable enough that they have to care about that, the software developer has *failed*.
Speaking as someone who has failed that way many times in the past... as, I suspect, have a good few of us here.