Thread: Kobo Firmware for Sony Ereaders
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Old 04-14-2018, 07:25 PM   #6
jackie_w
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Originally Posted by Ricky D'Angelo View Post
I feel Kobo lost an opportunity to improve it's firmware for Sony ereaders to encourage more people to buy books from the company.
I'm not sure what you think Kobo could have done about it. The Sony firmware is proprietary to Sony and could only be enhanced by Sony. They decided to do the bare minimum, presumably because they had minimal interest in further development once they decided to exit the ereader game.

I'm not aware that 'giving away' their code for free was part of any deal they had with Kobo.

In addition to all that the Sony firmware on the PRS-Tx range is Android and the Kobo firmware is not. Do you think Kobo should have hired an extra Android team to sell those extra books to Sony owners?
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