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Originally Posted by Regina
Reference : https://www.inverse.com/input/tech/o...blocked-amazon
"It’s likely the older Kindle hardware won’t physically be capable of connecting to the Kindle Store as the summer draws to a close. The original Kindles were all set up to use TLS 1.0 and 1.1 for their internet connections, and compatibility with newer TLS protocols just isn’t possible from these devices." |
Um, forgive me for my ignorance, but why? I admit, I did not look at Kindle firmware below gen10 or so (not sure), but most executables there were quite happily running when I just swapped libopenssl to a newer version. Not all, but enough, so replacing ssl version should not really be more than just recompiling, unless ssl was somehow baked into hardware (I guess I cannot discount that?) or if firmware cannot be updated at all. SSL did not get that much heavier, to my knowledge. So if they cared, they would have released emergency patch for the firmware. They certainly found a way to patch firmware without updating it for Oasis devices (to add new DRM)!
I should also point out, that they appear to be running Java 1.7 (do correct me if I am wrong) on the latest firmwares still (even though, once again, their files ran quite happily and with minimal modifications on Java 21), so I am not sure they... care?
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Originally Posted by jhowell
This!
Although Amazon no longer accepts the older formats from publishers there are still a lot of older books that to this day are only available in those formats. Amazon converted all of those they could to KFX but that was not possible for many of them. So even after the old devices that only handle those formats are gone Amazon will still need to support reading them, even in the newest devices. Otherwise previously purchased books will become unreadable.
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Once again, what exactly stops them from converting all books into KFX, even if they get a bit botched? Their DRM-free epubs are apparently a mess, so obviously they don't really care about conversion quality... Maybe contracts? (And why are some 2026 comic books Mobi?)