said by GuyOnTheAir:So I would imagine that they've also then, a) either gone away from really storing anything that would ever change on the device,
From what I gathered, they don't store anything on the device. That's what Dan played up on the investor call. Go everywhere and have access to your contacts and call log. (The downside which he didn't mention is that, if you lose access to the internet, you can't access your contacts or call log. There should be an export feature.).
said by GuyOnTheAir:b) still have what basically amounts to a "flash ROM" memory that can be flashed by the latest mJ updater.
I didn't think the programs on the emulated CD-ROM were ever updated. It was just a bootstrap to handover control to MagicJackLoader.exe in your mjusbsp directory on your hard disk.
If that doesn't exist on your harddisk, it would contact upgrade.talk4free.com to start the upgrade (which would really be the initial install).
Subsequently, the softphone (loaded from harddisk) would sense if an upgrade were available, and go through the same process.
The non-CD drive which appeared as a flash drive only contained contacts, call log and some configuration data (which is apparently stored on the server now, too).
But, I don't know if the emulated CD was on the same drive. There were people who formatted their MJs. I don't know what was being formatted. It's possible the CD was on the same flash chip as the flash drive the user saw in their drive's list. Maybe all MJ did was stop writing to it, and that's enough to stop the failures MJ said they were having.
I don't know. "Redpepper" probably knows what's happening under the covers. Whether the CD is ROM or was somehow a partitioned area of the same flash memory as the flash drive users saw.