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Originally Posted by the.Mtn.Man
I love my Kobo and will probably buy another if anything ever happens to my beloved Aura, but seriously, what's the deal?
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You're conflating operating system with applications. Because they do have a rock solid operating system. How often does your Kobo crash, dump core, spontaneously (seemingly) reboot, etc? If your experiences are anything like mine then the answer is never or close enough. Mostly because the OS doesn't change much and what does change is typically heavily tested well before Kobo start using it. It's a benefit of using a Linux kernel and Busybox.
Applications are an entirely different kettle of fish. This is things like the home screen, the ePub reader, the kePub reader, the PDF reader, etc. Applications are near-constantly moving targets. Kobo are developing for four generations of devices with different characteristics and features. Devices which don't lend themselves to rigorous automated testing because they're effectively appliances and not general purpose computers. And Kobo's development teams are much smaller than the global Linux kernel development community, and I would guess smaller than Amazon's Kindle crew.