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Originally Posted by kartu
Going android is VERY different from what has been done in previous models.
Kinoma (company that has actually developed software for the readers) has its own framework with a lot of existing code that was updated when going from model to model, but never rewritten from scratch. That code would not benefit in any way from "going android".
I don't see any rationale of doing it, besides having flashy marketing buzzword.
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One benefit is that Android is mobile-oriented with a larger set of developers working on the foundation of it. This means potential access to more mobile drivers, more chipsets and so on without sinking as much effort having to do all the integration yourself.
And I'm not sure it'd all have to be written from scratch to go to Android, since Linux is the foundation for both. As an OEM, they aren't exactly restricted to Java apps like Google does with ISVs to get onto the Google Market.