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Originally Posted by initx
I am not an android programmer, but it has several reasons. First, Android is optimized for touch-screen devices, while e-readers are mostly button-oriented, and modifying the system might lead to a lot of problem, too. Second, Android can run only java programs above the Dalvik virtual machine, that is, you have to write all softwares from scratch in java, which is painful.
On the other hand, linux is "already out there", so I guess that Onyx guys just use standard open source softwares, libraries and software components. For a proprietary closed system, modifying a standard linux distro is much less painful than creating an own Android version (w/o market etc.) and then writing all the softwares in java from scratch.
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Nook Touch is eink and android based and it is sold for under 150$ at this price I assume the Android license is not a lot
At this moment I believe that lots of apps are already out there for android too. For exapample the PDF reader program called ezPDF reader costs around 5$ or so. Licensing that for Onyx shouldn't add a lot to the initial cost. as I mentioned above Onyx should care only for developing the drivers for their hardware. I installed many other programs on my nook touch and I do not see major problems with them. Not using multitouch is not going to completely disable the functionality of a program. Again, it is already proved by Nook Touch, what I am saying is not speculation, we have the device used as ereader as we speak, it is eink and it is Android based and the cost is under 150$ What doesn't match?