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Re:Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular networ... by Wowfunhappy on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:25PM (#27998927)
> Ten years ago everyone would be up in arms about this change. Something happened. We no longer care about device obsolescence. It's like our concept of ownership and longevity has been stripped from us.

Broadly speaking, I absolutely agree. People are impressed that Apple supports 6-year-old iPhones, whereas I think that's an unconscionably short length of time. (Particularly given how Apple makes customers reliant on them for everything.)

However, in the case of these Kindles, I'm a bit more sympathetic to Amazon here. They're not the ones who are turning off 3G networks, so I'm not really sure what they could do.

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Re:Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular networ... by ghaff on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:31PM (#27998989)
And they're actually giving pretty reasonable promo codes.

For some reason, I didn't get one--probably because my device is no longer registered on Amazon.com. Not that I have any real reason to run out and buy a new Kindle anyway.

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Re:Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular networ... by echelon on Friday July 30, 2021 @09:09PM (#28014284)
Fair points. Much better sunsetting here than what most companies do. The network shutdown is out of Amazon's control, and the offers are generous.
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Re:Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular networ... by LorenPechtel on Thursday July 29, 2021 @05:41PM (#28001848)
A lot better than than what happened with my TracDot luggage trackers with lifetime service. They were 2G based and simply died when the 2G went away.
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