Thread: Arc Ask Me Anything: Developer on Kobo Arc
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Old 06-08-2013, 11:37 AM   #238
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Glad I read this. I'll stick to the Nexus 7 until a retina iPad mini comes out.

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Originally Posted by JD Gumby View Post
If anyone's found a way to root the Arc yet, they have been keeping VERY quiet about it. And Kobo, despite not being beholden to any carriers or (unlike Amazon or B&N) an ecosystem to lock the device into, seem quite vehement about keeping us away from root so that we can't do things like enable proper USB support, edit our hosts files so we can have some basic protection when surfing the Web, or change a single value in build.prop so that our tablets can use the tablet version of the Jelly Bean UI instead of the phone version it currently uses.
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