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It is believable to require a new machine to require a firmware update.

Items ship, while firmware development continues. At some point, the new firmware is released while previously shipped items are still on shelves awaiting purchase.

At the same time, I'm rather surprised that there isn't some method to update the firmware that can be done at a end-user level. However, sometimes, firmware is delivered via ROMS instead of via download, often because the firmware requires a larger ROM or flash than previously shipped. I remember when I had to upgrade 4 USRobotics Total Control hubs and I had to do a 2MB upload at 9600bps, just took forever, so it seemed, but that's what was needed to be done to do the updates since it required new flash to be installed and we had to start from nothing.
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