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Originally Posted by jswinden
According to people like Laridae and his fellow Android is God group, anything that isn't pure Android is a walled garden. BS! Hell, even so-called pure Android doesn't really exist. I bet no two devices have ever run the same Android. Even if they ran Android x.y.z, the manufacturer and/or carriers undoubtedly changed Android to meet their commercial needs and made it uniquely sucky. Apple doesn't allow carriers to modify iOS. A phone from AT&T with Android is way more walled in than an AT&T iPhone. Walled in is just a BS phrase that has little meaning in the real world.
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And pure Android doesn't do you much good when you still have to rip the DRM to read your books on a lovely open eReading program.
When someone makes an open, entirely 100% DRM-free eBook Reader and Store then I'll switch to that, because it's a great end goal. But it hasn't happened yet. I support DRM-free sources of books when I find them (websites like StoryBundle and Unglue.it are wonderful!), but demonizing one ecosystem is really narrow-sighted.