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Originally Posted by issybird
It's hard to know exactly how to extrapolate from this to markets other than Australia, other than assuming all devices of these vintages will be dead in the water.
My take from a US perspective:
- A 20% discount on a new device is lousy. We could get that at any time by swapping in the old device.
- Most if not all of these devices have already been subject to very nice upgrade deals (much better than this one).
- I have a keyboard and have heard nothing. It hasn't been able to connect to the store in yonks, but it still downloads. Which has been handy, *cough, cough*. I assume that will no longer be the case sometime in the near future. The question is whether download and transfer will still work and the inference is that it will not. The email coyly doesn't mention that specifically when it lists the other methods of accessing books that will end.
My bottom line which I suspect puts me at odds with most posters here, is that these are ancient gadgets! No device lasts forever. And I can't imagine that many valued Amazon customers still read on these. The specs stink and the batteries are moribund. Heavy kindle book buyers moved on long ago, even if only to their phones.
And for those who are outraged that Amazon is trying to enforce the "license" thingy, that's what you signed on for when you hit the Lease Buy button. It was always implicit and lately in the US it's been explicit. |
Actually, because my Kindle Touch was bought from Goodwill, I didn't agree to any license agreement from Amazon.