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trocchietto · 06-23-2015, 05:35 PM

UPDATE:
please RAKUTEN, mr. Mikitani, worshipped KOBO, you have 5.3 billion of revenue, hire some sw engineers and
MAKE KOBO as Samsung for Android telephones, before other will do it.

At the moment android ereaders are clunky, bad pdf basic readers, poor quality materials, lights not always good, bad customer service, how Kobo cannot see the huge market offered by having a good factory apps , the own system but be open to android???
just imagine how many customer from the android subforum would salivate to have it a kobo glo with android 4, native inside instead to switch the device, using the genial hack that still unfortunately is limited to old android versions.( android 4 is the minum I expect to pay for more than 80 bucks.
it is in my opinion just a marketing no sense sticking with inbuilt features, amazon offers good reader, reviews, an amazing highlight user experience, but Kobo should in my opnion focus on two points: give justice to their sony kinda acquisition using at least ALL the dictionary inbuilted in the marvellous Sony T1/2/3/prs650 and second tackle Amazon with intelligence offering ...something... like an excellent operative system+ google play!!!

if the mktg manager, COO, CFO, CTO,CEO decide to approve these two points, do you bet 1 dollar that they are going to gain billions fidelizing milion of new customers to their ereaders, and ebooks? just a bet in a democratic forum!

EDIT: again, why focusing in doing new hardware models... if there are huge basic flaws like these https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ht=trocchietto, how it is possible to sell product if there is need to give more experience to the user THOUSANDS TIMES MORE than definition(on eink reader?) and lights or water protection? I do not know what marketing survey you see it, but all the people that are interested on android devices look at much more functionalities than be allured by eink pearl, carta or nnxnn DPI definitions, i mean we are speaking of black and white devices, not televisions!!!

all in all please use the original sony dictionaries, plus improve the system, as per the link i posted above, and add google play, people will love kobobooks even more if they can download some pdf from the web as well! Readers are crazy onnivors folks that would appreciate a device that has all the functionality read from the first switch on instead to order devices in china and find every kind of hacking turnaround to make it google play working as it happening now. If i were a student I would buy one of these chinese T62+, but I have a really limited leisure time to try and see if things work spending hours to make a system working.Samsung, apple, google.. and even amazon use this strategy...
really simple: i did not buy kobo glo HD, great device but zero dictionary in English -Dutch bidirectional, no ability to install apps. You know I have a sony PRS T2 and with a script made on the forum I can move all the notations on Mantano, considering you did not make possible to import the annotations( otherwise several T2/3 users would have bought as well) at least make me possible to not lose them using Mantano. Please invest in SW engineers or causally release a workaround to make an hacker use android 4!

06-23-2015, 05:35 PM	#2
trocchietto Addict Posts: 399 Karma: 2038458 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Amsterdam, but I am neapolitan Device: sony 650 ,T2, samsung 7.7, ipad2, ipad mini2, yotaphone2, galax tab s2	UPDATE: please RAKUTEN, mr. Mikitani, worshipped KOBO, you have 5.3 billion of revenue, hire some sw engineers and MAKE KOBO as Samsung for Android telephones, before other will do it. At the moment android ereaders are clunky, bad pdf basic readers, poor quality materials, lights not always good, bad customer service, how Kobo cannot see the huge market offered by having a good factory apps , the own system but be open to android??? just imagine how many customer from the android subforum would salivate to have it a kobo glo with android 4, native inside instead to switch the device, using the genial hack that still unfortunately is limited to old android versions.( android 4 is the minum I expect to pay for more than 80 bucks. it is in my opinion just a marketing no sense sticking with inbuilt features, amazon offers good reader, reviews, an amazing highlight user experience, but Kobo should in my opnion focus on two points: give justice to their sony kinda acquisition using at least ALL the dictionary inbuilted in the marvellous Sony T1/2/3/prs650 and second tackle Amazon with intelligence offering ...something... like an excellent operative system+ google play!!! if the mktg manager, COO, CFO, CTO,CEO decide to approve these two points, do you bet 1 dollar that they are going to gain billions fidelizing milion of new customers to their ereaders, and ebooks? just a bet in a democratic forum! EDIT: again, why focusing in doing new hardware models... if there are huge basic flaws like these https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ht=trocchietto, how it is possible to sell product if there is need to give more experience to the user THOUSANDS TIMES MORE than definition(on eink reader?) and lights or water protection? I do not know what marketing survey you see it, but all the people that are interested on android devices look at much more functionalities than be allured by eink pearl, carta or nnxnn DPI definitions, i mean we are speaking of black and white devices, not televisions!!! all in all please use the original sony dictionaries, plus improve the system, as per the link i posted above, and add google play, people will love kobobooks even more if they can download some pdf from the web as well! Readers are crazy onnivors folks that would appreciate a device that has all the functionality read from the first switch on instead to order devices in china and find every kind of hacking turnaround to make it google play working as it happening now. If i were a student I would buy one of these chinese T62+, but I have a really limited leisure time to try and see if things work spending hours to make a system working.Samsung, apple, google.. and even amazon use this strategy... really simple: i did not buy kobo glo HD, great device but zero dictionary in English -Dutch bidirectional, no ability to install apps. You know I have a sony PRS T2 and with a script made on the forum I can move all the notations on Mantano, considering you did not make possible to import the annotations( otherwise several T2/3 users would have bought as well) at least make me possible to not lose them using Mantano. Please invest in SW engineers or causally release a workaround to make an hacker use android 4! Last edited by trocchietto; 06-23-2015 at 06:08 PM.