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Originally Posted by Billi
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.
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Unfortunately the producers have good reason to try and "lock down" the devices. A small number of "bad apples" spoil things for everyone by, in the case of the Kindle, buying ad-supported devices at a discount, and then finding methods of removing the advertising without paying the premium for doing so, or hacking the 3G service on the 3G device, then using it to provide Internet tethering for a PC. It only takes a small number of people like that to spoil things for everyone.