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Originally Posted by temp
if it would be simple book reader there wouldn't be so many extras such as speakers, wifi, calender, home screen, browser. there is already an operating system in the background. admit it, it's a computer!  |
My toaster probably has an operating system. Does that make it a computer? As for my ebook reader, it neither has speakers, wifi, a calendar, a home screen or a browser. What does that make it?
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Originally Posted by temp
i'm just saying sell it simple as a computer with nothing installed on it, and let everyone upload/write whatever application they want.
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While that's a noble thing in theory, in practice, it just won't work. Asking people to *gasp* setup or configure a gadget right after buying it is too much for 90% of the populace. Even charging the batteries can be asking too much.
As for your implied OSS development of reader software, or OSS in general: While it's a fine principle, many open source projects are geared toward an audience that is somewhat more educated on computer usage than the "average" user. There be dangers in just asking everyone to please use what some geeks (no insult intended, I consider myself one) cobbled together in their spare time. (And again, no insult inteded towards the world of OSS, it's just that I wouldn't, for example, ask my mum to use most of the open source programs there are.)