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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Obviously you do not understand the meaning of end-of-life. EOL for a Kindle is when a company (Amazon in this case) will not release firmware with any bug fixes, enhancements, and new features. Yes, the PW3 is still usable.
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Amazingly there is no one central Correct Repository of Terminology from the Academie des Ordinateurs Anglaise and words and phrases can legitimately have different meanings. I *can* say that this is not the meaning used by *any* of the software developers i have worked for. At any of those (the few that use the term "EOL" at all), if something is still in support, it is not EOL. The KP3 is still in support. It happens not to be getting new features on the client-side any more, but y'know there was a time when you didn't get new features for things at all after you bought them, but they weren't considered EOL right after they were sold because there was still after-sales support and the thing still had to keep working (and if they were things you could use to spend more money with the company, doubly so).
The KP3 may be EOL from the perspective of the software development department of some companies, but as noted this is not the definition Amazon themselves use (they seem to use a more complex scheme than your strict binary, where the support level slowly declines over many years: it's not clear whether the Kindle 1 is still supported, but the Kindle Keyboard certainly was a year or so ago). It's the definition *you* use, and you want us to say yes of course JSWolf's arbitrary terminological decision is the Only Right One so you can blast Amazon some more for an EOL decision they never made (because you made it up) at every possible turn. And you are going on and on about it with righteous determination that is all the more irritating for being based on such a false premise.
It's getting really boring to read.