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Old 01-19-2023, 06:36 PM   #635
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Unless there is a hardware reason PW1 and earlier cant support KFX I'm going to assume this can happen to them at any time too.

If Amazon really wanted to it seems like updating older devices for KFX and then making all downloads KFX only would be an effective way to further lock people into their ecosystem.
It is not impossible, but I very highly doubt it. There are signs that the Kindle development group is working at capacity as it is. And I doubt that Amazon is going to throw more resources their way.

Since Amazon has stated that they will no longer support Kindles with software updates for more than four years after they are last sold it seems far more likely that they will just stop delivering books to those devices at some point saying that they are too old to support KFX and KFX is the only format available for new books.
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