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Originally Posted by Anak
Don't get me wrong. I don't want to turn a ereader into a poor tablet.
I prefer some additional flexibility that allows installing other reading applications and I'm aware there are other ways to do this on current Kobo hardware.
Android isn't worse than Qt on a ereading device both need to be optimized for the hardware they are running on. Many ODM/OEM manufacturers have ereader reference designs for both OS.
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Other reading applications, I can agree with. From what I've see looking at comments about various Android eInk implementations, the majority of the complaints come down to a simple the screen is too slow for .... (fill in the application of your choice from attempting to watch videos, browsing complex web pages, animation, etc.).
I suspect you meant Android vs. Linux. QT is a cross-platform framework that allows development of GUI applications -- command line also but not as commonly seen. Example that many here would be familiar with is Calibre where using QT allowed Windows/Linux/MacOSX implementations without a massive rewrite for each platform. In theory, Calibre could also be ported to Android using the QT Android implementation.
If you look at the Kobo firmware package, it seems to have 3 QT implementations (QT 5.2.1 in it's own directory plus QT 4.6.2 and QT 4.8.0 in the Trolltech directory --Trolltech being the original producers of QT).
Regards,
David