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Old 12-18-2013, 11:37 AM   #45
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Originally Posted by Billi View Post
I don't think that this is true. I think truth is that eink reader producers don't let you care about the OS, that ereaders are very closed devices despite of having linux under the hood, more closed than the respective android readers. But the interest of the consumers is there to change their devices a little bit, add this app, add that app, change this setting - look in the different developers parts of our forum here.
Certainly - ebook readers are sold (on the whole) as dedicated devices, not as general-purpose computers. Android tablets, on the other hand, are sold as open devices onto which people can install apps. It's a different market.
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