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Old 02-22-2020, 11:40 AM   #61
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Kindle need insider preview program like w10.
What Kindle really needs is the mobileread developers key installed at the factory.

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Old 02-22-2020, 11:50 AM   #62
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What Kindle really needs is the mobileread developers key installed at the factory.
Yes. Though Archos used to be worse than Amazon, and I think the 1.8" HDD in the Apple iPods that used them are unusable in anything else, you can't even re-partition. Custom drive firmware. Though DOES let you remove the "Sent from my iPhone" signature..
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Old 02-22-2020, 12:26 PM   #63
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No, because that only exists because MS ditched the QA dept. Also they ignore feedback of broken stuff when it suits them. That's really a marketing / bean counter / crowd sourced solution rather than proper testing.
Also there isn't any sensible criterion for joining. Mostly MS Fans and many are only wanting extra new features rather than being representative of the user base or qualified to test.
W10 is the worst OS ever from MS for rolling out stuff to the public that doesn't work, disables drivers, deletes files etc.
I find Win10 to work pretty good.
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Old 02-22-2020, 12:35 PM   #64
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I find Win10 to work pretty good.
Me too, but there's no denying Windows updates break stuff/functionality occasionally. I've had to report various bugs several times. Fortunately MS generally has fixed them, though often after a while.
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Old 02-22-2020, 12:44 PM   #65
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I find Win10 to work pretty good.
Yes.
Best win ever.
I want to test new features on my Kindle.

Amazon is very conservative.

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Old 02-25-2020, 07:24 PM   #66
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It is weird to install an update, only to wait for ‘the next couple of weeks’ to see any new features.
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That's pretty much normal for Amazon though
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It is weird to install an update, only to wait for ‘the next couple of weeks’ to see any new features.
It’s not just weird it’s sneaky. They also sneak in a forced firmware update that messes with potential jailbreaks. This isn’t for our benefit. It’s all about how to lock us into the way they want us to do things.
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Old 02-26-2020, 11:58 AM   #69
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It’s not just weird it’s sneaky. They also sneak in a forced firmware update that messes with potential jailbreaks. This isn’t for our benefit. It’s all about how to lock us into the way they want us to do things.
The vast majority of devices aren't jail broken. I doubt it's a blip on their radar.
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That's pretty much normal for Amazon though
Only the last few releases?
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Old 02-27-2020, 08:17 AM   #71
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The vast majority of devices aren't jail broken. I doubt it's a blip on their radar.
I wish that was the case. But in the jailbreak community the evidence shows otherwise.
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It’s not just weird it’s sneaky. They also sneak in a forced firmware update that messes with potential jailbreaks. This isn’t for our benefit. It’s all about how to lock us into the way they want us to do things.
It's normal for all firms running large clouds these days -- it means you can trickle changes out, then easily roll them back if they break. Trickling firmware updates out allows you to do the latter, but unless the new features can be switched on *and off* independently of the upgrade, there's no easy way to revert broken changes fast without rapidly releasing a new bugfix firmware to everyone who received the broken one, which presumably Amazon can't really do due to bandwidth constraints. Flipping a feature on or off only takes a few hundred bytes.

They're just treating Kindles the same way as big fleets of remotely-administered servers, which seems sensible to me: Amazon do, after all, have a lot of experience with that sort of thing.
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Old 02-28-2020, 12:50 AM   #73
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I wish that was the case. But in the jailbreak community the evidence shows otherwise.
You wish it was true? It is true, the jailbreak community is just a blip. If you are part of a fringe group, it always appears more important, because to almost every member of that group it is important. Same with the fringe group that requires no DRM on their books.

Arguably the ability to remove DRM group is bigger. And yet both groups combined are only making up a very small portion of total users.
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Old 02-28-2020, 03:27 AM   #74
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Has anybody got anything from the update till now?
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Old 02-28-2020, 03:33 AM   #75
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Just a new version number so far for me on my Oasis2.
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