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Originally Posted by tomsem
Cutting off Kindle apps has precedence: Amazon doesn't control the OS platforms and isn't going to support versions which the OS vendors themselves have sunsetted.
At some point Windows for PC 4.2.0 will stop working, but I think it will only be done as result of some refactoring or major change to the app that they want to push out (like to make it look like the Android and iOS apps, and let you view Scribe Notebooks).
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Cutting of the ability of older apps to download books has been done multiple times even when those apps were still runnable. Kindle for PC version 2.4.0 is being used because the older versions that only download older formats with long-broken DRM have been blocked from downloading newly published books with a totally arbitrary cutoff date. And the reason that the version 2.4.1 and newer are being avoided is the new unbroken DRM that Amazon implemented in that release. It is all about controlling access to books, not technical limitations.
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Originally Posted by tomsem
As for hardening on-device DRM they certainly had ample opportunity to do it with the 2024 Kindles, and they did not take that opportunity. So it's not clear they have intention to do that any time soon either.
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They did not take that opportunity
yet. The next round of hardened DRM is just now being rolled out. Kindle for PC was first with version 2.4.1 in July of 2024. Kindle for Mac version 7.25.1 released this month has new DRM, blocking a potential work-around for Mac users. I find it hard to believe that e-ink Kindles are going to be left out.
The impending removal of Download & Transfer is just one indication of Amazon's ongoing seriousness about keeping their customers from having control over their books.