Thread: DRM, DeDRM, and ebook formats
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Old 01-15-2025, 08:57 PM   #74
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Originally Posted by ratinox View Post
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.
The tablets haven't been Kindle Fire for over a decade. They've just been Amazon Fire since the 2014 models.

The gulf between the Kindle OS and Fire OS remains quite enormous, despite Amazon adding MTP to the Kindles for USB storage.
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