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Originally Posted by mgmueller
They don't "restrict" it. They simply don't add more, because it hardly could help their sales but might make their readers more interesting for side loading.
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I think that is more than enough reason without assuming what comes next.
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Why would anyone, who's mainly interested in side loading, buy any Kindle at the moment?
Kindles use the "wrong" file format and without SD card it's not that open and flexible and for some of my hoarder-friends 2GB are way too limited.
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That is a side effect of the fact that Amazon has no reason to go out of their way to cultivate sideloaders. Sideloaders will tend not to be interested in any device that has not been specifically tuned for sideloading. Kobo has decided to cultivate that audience, and more power to them I say.
But Amazon can achieve the same effect either by having it in for sideloaders, or by simply refusing to devote so much as a single brain cell to the mere issue of sideloading.
This of course does not take into account that in terms of syncing sideloaded purchases... well, they are actually the only vendor who did anything in that area.
All in all, I am more inclined to believe that Bezos has an evangelical approach to the concept of "the cloud", rather than any sort of malice for sideloading.