RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116377687987470957
“But you can still read your existing books! And jailbreak it to upload more!”
Imagine having a car that the manufacturer one day just declares that you can’t put gas in anymore.
To get gas you’d have to cut a hole into your car so you can sneak some in bypassing the inlet. But you can’t go to real gas stations anymore so you have to get gas in a back alley from some random guy.
@thomasfuchs This line jumped out at me:
"Amazon said performing a factory reset on affected Kindles would make them unusable."
So... you can't reset a device and hand it over to the secondary/used market for any purpose (other than destructive recycling of parts?)...
Contrast: Last week I did a factory reset on my rarely-used Kobo touch device (2011), and it's humming along just fine; it even updated over the wire after the reset and account switch. And can load new books.
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