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Originally Posted by OrganicJerk
My point is that Android can be stripped rather easily and run as the Backend, which leaves yourself, as an ereader developer, to be just an "app" developer, and not an "operating system" developer. To some extent, anyway.
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You surely could reduce JVM overhead by not using it at all most of the time.
Not to mention, that Sony had JVM of its own.
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You want an app? Turn on the Nook Touch and there's the app.
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No, I want a list of standard Android apps that run on unhacked Nook Touch.
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If you say so. Apparently Sony didn't get the memo.
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Devs at Kinoma surely know it. Management geniuses not necessarily.
It might be the same old Kinoma interface running via JNI hook on Android platform. (judging from blurry USB connected screenshot)
This reminds me "brilliant" solution of some bright heads demanding app to be "Visual Basic" and dev turning his Delphi application into an ActiveX control that runs in a VB container.
Sense makes it not. Well, not technically. From marketing "impressive buzzwords" perspective there might be very good reason to.
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Sony was using a proprietary linux OS in their reader, and they've now (possibly) decided to tack onto an already existing and fruitful architecture.
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Sony is using Monta Vista Linux, which is in no way "Sony proprietary".