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Originally Posted by ratinox
But the previous generations will never see a current OS release.
Amazon and Kobo and Apple and Google make money selling content. Readers and phones and tablets are the packaging used to deliver that content. Keeping them up to date keeps existing customers buying more product.
Onyx, Fiio and other hardware manufacturers across the board make money selling hardware. They don't have content stores, and keeping old products up to date generates no revenue so they largely don't bother once a model goes out of production. If you're okay with this then you do you, but be aware that buying these products is a short term dead end.
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Oynx has a real store in China.
Considering that most book reader apps are perfectly usable on an ancient version of Android like 4.4 from 2013 and most new android features are near useless on an eInk, non-phone device, I'm not sure how big an issue it really is.
Not every feature hits the older Kobos or Kindles either. My Kobo Aura One never got Dropbox support for example, that's only reserved for new Forma so far. Older Kindles like the Kindle 2 can't handle AZW3 books cutting them off from stuff like manga, later Kindles didn't get KFX and the better typography, etc.
They make sure most books work in some form or another on most devices but older devices don't get a lot of newer features either.