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Originally Posted by SleepyBob
Can you explain how what B&N has done is different than what Amazon has done? Because they don't have any division between purchased content and sideloaded, or apps vs. movies. Why couldn't B&N have taken the same route, then?
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The only difference is the partition sizes, B&N decided to leave a lot of space for content they provide to ensure you are unlikely to run out of space for that content. The alternative would be to have a smaller data partition and a larger media partition, and update the apps to store the bulk of their data on the media partition. The this has disadvantages, for instance the media partition is vfat as opposed to ext3 or ext4, meaning that it doesn't support permissions and the data would be visible to all apps, a potential security risk. Also apps would have to be stopped when the partition is mounted, as apps would lose access to their data.