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fjtorres · 11-10-2014, 09:28 AM

Correlation is not causation.
You need sideloading (via USB, SD, or download) but you don't need to be a pirate to benefit from sideloading.

And if you only focus on USB sideloading, Kindles benefit more from it than Kobo's because they don't have SD expansion. I would expect that the *hardware* feature that most drives sales of Kobos over Kindles to be SD, not a feature they have in commonlike sideloading.

On the software side, I could see generic epub compatibility as being the biggest driver.

11-10-2014, 09:28 AM	#24
fjtorres Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,732 Karma: 128354696 Join Date: May 2009 Location: 26 kly from Sgr A* Device: T100TA,PW2,PRS-T1,KT,FireHD 8.9,K2, PB360,BeBook One,Axim51v,TC1000	Correlation is not causation. You need sideloading (via USB, SD, or download) but you don't need to be a pirate to benefit from sideloading. And if you only focus on USB sideloading, Kindles benefit more from it than Kobo's because they don't have SD expansion. I would expect that the hardware feature that most drives sales of Kobos over Kindles to be SD, not a feature they have in commonlike sideloading. On the software side, I could see generic epub compatibility as being the biggest driver.