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Originally Posted by ratinox
I believe D&T will not go until Amazon decide that they no longer want the free money these devices generate. By "free" I mean that these legacy devices cost Amazon nothing to support, so any money people spend on Kindle books for these old devices is almost pure profit.
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Amazon is missing out on the usage information that they can gather from devices that connect regularly. They may consider that to be a cost. After all they do not allow the downloading of books unless you have a registered Kindle, which they could certainly do if they only cared about maximizing e-book sales.
Because they can no longer connect, Amazon has no way to know which ones now exist only as serial numbers registered solely to allow the use of Download & Transfer to extract books from Amazon's ecosystem. I suspect those are the majority.
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Originally Posted by ratinox
I could be wrong, but I simply don't see Amazon cutting off a revenue source, nor do I see them choosing a PR disaster after what Sonos did.
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I believe that offering a substantial discount for upgrading to newer and better technology more than offsets the negative publicity in discontinuing support for 15+ year old devices. But I could also be wrong.