With Amazon eradicating the flexibility to obtain Kindle ebooks from their web site for USB switch, it makes you surprise in the event that they’re going to take away the choice to obtain Kindle software program updates for USB switch as effectively.
Most individuals in all probability simply let their Kindles replace robotically whereas linked to WiFi, and because you don’t have a say within the matter it’ll occur ultimately whether or not you need it to or not, except you retain your Kindle in airplane mode on a regular basis.
The choice to manually replace Kindles is strictly a USB switch factor, similar to sideloading downloaded ebooks from Amazon, and now that they took that function away, does it is sensible to maintain providing software program updates for USB switch?
Eager about it, it’s type of an odd factor that Amazon would even provide the choice to obtain software program updates and provides clients the flexibility to manually set up them over USB. Most different corporations don’t do this.
Most corporations simply launch software program updates that robotically obtain and set up on their very own; they don’t put up a webpage with direct firmware downloads for each mannequin and provides instructions on tips on how to set up the updates manually by way of USB like Amazon does with the Kindle Software program Updates web page.
That’s so not an Amazon factor to do, usually talking, however in some way it nonetheless exists for Kindles. I might simply see Amazon eradicating the choice to obtain and manually set up Kindle updates by way of USB subsequent. How many individuals actually have to put in updates manually lately?
Kindles are extra dependant on WiFi now than ever (in actual fact, WiFi is just about required to make use of them now that Amazon took away the choice to sideload bought ebooks by way of USB), so why wouldn’t Amazon simply begin providing over-the-air updates shifting ahead and drop handbook updates altogether?
I might see them maintaining the hyperlinks up for the older fashions, however it wouldn’t be in any respect stunning to see Amazon part out handbook downloads for newer Kindles. In reality, they nonetheless haven’t put up a firmware obtain hyperlink for the Kindle Colorsoft so perhaps it’s already began.
