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Originally Posted by issybird
You are ignoring the evidence of things that have already happened in order to engage in specious speculation, it seems to me. First, Amazon has already disallowed D&T on its newest Kindles, a clear indicator that it's on the chopping block. If not, why bother? My own speculation based on that is that the profit from data is (probably far) greater than any profits resulting from D&T to legacy devices.
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A technical and cost reason is an effort to unify the Kindle and Kindle Fire code bases. Google killed off USB storage in Android years ago so that's how Kindle Fires work. 2024 Kindles work the same way as Kindle Fires work (only MTP). This would reduce the person-hours costs for maintaining current devices and for developing future devices, especially if Amazon decide to go all-in with their Android-based Fire OS on future Kindles.
If this is the reason, or one of the reasons, then not having D&T (I can't call it a loss since these devices never had it to lose) is an opportunity cost.
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Amazon stock doesn't pay dividends, btw. Facts matter.
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Facts do matter, and I did not know this fact. I will reconsider based on this, and endeavor to remember it.
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Second, Amazon has had a program to get those whose devices would no longer connect to the store to upgrade. Again, it's already done that. So why not again? And saying that Kindles are sold at a loss is speculation which I'm not sure is supported by the prices of comparable devices. The ship may have sailed on upgrading your DX, however, as that fell under the earlier program. 
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I did not mean to suggest that Kindles are sold at retail are sold at a loss. It was the hypothetical discount program sales which might be loss leaders.