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Originally Posted by obsessed2
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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Amazon's interface is far more limiting than Apple's and involves an UI overlay atop Android which I find awful. If you're not interested purely in buying content from Amazon, you're far better off rooting. For people who intend only to use a tablet without rooting, Amazon strikes me as the more controlling of the two.
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While Amazon certainly encourages you to use its ecosystem, it is not required and there are many choices. I can get Apps from 1Mobile, SlideMe, Freeware Lovers, AndroidPit, and GetJar just to name a few. Apple products are far more restrictive than Amazon.
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Heck yeah, I cannot fathom Presti's reasoning one whit.
It's not that complicated: Apple ONLY allows approved apps through the Apple app store, and Apple ONLY allows sideloaded content through iTunes.
Amazon is open by comparison. Copy books movies and music just like you were putting it on a thumb drive (or OFF the device to another computer...try THAT with Apple), and get apps from all the above sources plus loading your own if desired, no root or jailbreak required.
The other things mentioned, like Amazon locking someone out their account, has nothing to do with sideloading or walled-garden restriction, nor does their choice of GUI loader, which is also replaceable, by the way.
And calling Amazon's ebook format "useless" (or "obsolete" as other have called it) shows an utter disregard for either reality or the meaning of words, since the Amazon format is still hugely popular and successful, and in practical terms, every bit as usable as epub. (Though I would prefer the potentially richer, open standard on principle.)
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