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There are rumblings that K1 will get Collections. Hang in there, but by all means let Amazon know you expect them. Amazon doesn't tend to announce their plans, so don't expect them to share them with you. In the meantime, only a few people have the new update, so the rest of us are waiting too, albeit with more confidence in the eventual result. In the interest of transparency though I hope they at least announce any K1 feature updates before K3 ships.
K2 has only been out about 15 months, yet this is the second major update that adds features. And it is free. If this was a desktop system, or a business application, all you would be getting over that time would be bug fixes, or paid updates.
I'm still of the opinion that Amazon doesn't make that much on Kindles (a one time profit that may easily evaporate if the hardware proves defective and needs to be replaced), or at the least that their business plan is to make a steady income selling ebooks (hence the family of free Kindle apps). I'm guessing they even lost money selling K1's for $399, as they shipped many fewer of these than K2s at a the current $259. Offering free new features is a good way to retain customer loyalty, and keep the ebook sales flowing, and buys them time to recoup production costs while developing new hardware. At the same time, software developers are expensive and any development they do has to have some business justification. One can argue for moral justification, but as with any publicly held company, such things always come down to dollars.
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