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Originally Posted by pl001
While you can indeed, for example, download Amazon content onto the Kindle App on an iPhone, that is only because Apple lets you download the Kindle App in the first place. I cannot put the Kindle app on my Nook without hacking it, because B&N doesn't allow that functionality. Pure Android, on the other hand, allows you to download anything you want from anywhere you want. Just like Windows.
There are ways over most of the walls, but generally most users will never go that far.
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The iPhone and iPad are walled gardens with respect to apps. This means that the only apps you can put on your device are from the app store. Strictly speaking, this is the only walled garden.
Kindle is not a walled garden because you can put e-books from other stores on it. Or you can put your own documents on it. There is no "wall". The same is true of all e-readers, afaik.
Even iDevices only have a walled garden with respect to apps. You can put mp3s (and certain other formats) on iDevices with no "wall."