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Originally Posted by HarryT
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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I wasn't comparing ereaders and android tablets but linux ereaders and android ereaders like for instance the Sony 650 and T1. It is the same market and paradoxically the linux devices are more closed. And ereader producers make it more and more difficult for the users to install their own programs. Onyx could be more open, Pocketbook was more open in the past, and when I've understood some threads from the Kindle forum rightly then they too are making it more difficult to have any modifications.