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rickdeckard 88 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?

It's an exceptionally odd decision, but planned for approx. a year now.

- First they stopped allowing download of purchased books for cable-transfer to kindle in 2025.

- Then they amped up their effort to avoid jailbreaking by suddenly releasing more firmware updates than before.

- Now they stopped supporting a wide range of kindles.

Amazon obviously assumes that they sufficiently killed the competition so they don't need to worry about customers leaving.

As for me, I managed to exit on-time, applied a jailbreak on my kindle touch and now buy my books elsewhere...

mmmlinux 88 days ago [–]

Too bad, I remember when kindles came with a free 3g connection and web browser.

rickdeckard 88 days ago | [–]

funny enough, just noticed on jailbreak that my kindle touch web-browser never lost its "beta" label, in all those years :)

themadturk 88 days ago | | [–]

Kobos have web browsers, and they have be in "beta" forever as well.

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