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Originally Posted by JSWolf
EOL should be when the new firmware won't run any longer. That's not the case with the PW3.
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Wikipedia says that EOL can have several meanings: no future updates is one of them. Another is when things no longer work with them. They give examples of Windows versions which will no longer promise to run software. I think that if Amazon has decided not to continue updates for the PW3 (We still don't know that) then it fits the first description but as long as we can still read books on it it doesn't fit the second description.
I think it's fair to say EOL has arrived for the PW3 when it no longer is useful for reading books. Updates really have little to do with reading books and that's why most of us buy our Kindles.
If Amazon announces that they'll no longer support the PW3 then we can be sure they think it's reached EOL since it matches one of the descriptions given in Wikipedia. But even so I'll consider it still a viable device as long as I can still read my books.
Of course if you hate Kindles and want to encourage other people to hate Kindles this is probably a good time to claim that it's reached EOL, but that's more a religious argument than a technological one.
Barry