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Originally Posted by knc1
Since the day may come when the grayscale devices may be running Android rather than the current, custom O.S. -
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* Besides, having Android on the Oasis might help ease the 'sticker shock' among potential Oasis customers (it probably isn't an accident that the Oasis looks like a 'phone), while saving Amazon a whole lot of money in custom O.S. development costs.
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This seems most unlikely to me. The entire raison d'etre of the e-ink Kindle line (at least, as it comes from Amazon, as opposed to what it's like after it's been mobilereaded!) is to get out of your way, not support stuff that is not conducive to reading, and minimize distraction: having Android on it, with its apps etc, seem likely to be disastrous to this goal.
(Can Android even start up with a screen looking even remotely like the current Kindles do, or must you always be faced with a do-this-or-this-or-this home screen that tempts you with dozens of things that are not reading? I've certainly never seen an Android installation that does anything like that.)
(As an Oasis user, I would protest fairly heartily if they tried to turn my nice single-purpose e-reader, a member of only class of device I have ever owned that's well-enough designed for its intended purpose that I have not been tempted to wildly hack the hell out of it within moments of getting it, into yet another sodding tablet. I already have one of those, as, no doubt, do most Oasis owners. I don't need another one.)