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Re:I'm never buying another Kindle, and neither should you by RIMR on Monday April 20, 2026 @02:58PM (#47838968)
There's a world of difference between software dependencies going out of date between many releases and a company deliberately disabling older devices from downloading static ebook files instead of maintaining some sort of basic backward compatibility.
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Re:I'm never buying another Kindle, and neither should you by fg137 on Monday April 20, 2026 @05:07PM (#47840748)
> maintaining some sort of basic backward compatibility

Sounds easy for you to type that out on a forum without having to maintain a two decade old stack, which probably has tons of "software dependencies going out of date"

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