Thread: Clara HD Next Kobo Model - Kobo Clara HD
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Old 05-15-2018, 07:54 PM   #161
davidfor
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Originally Posted by latepaul View Post
That's one of my pet peeves about ereaders - when a purely software feature is locked to a particular hardware. There's no reason why any Kobo that can run the latest firmware could do the direct borrow on device thing, but they limit it to the Aura ONE.
The problem is we don't know why the OD support has never been added to the other devices. There are plenty of reasons for why it hasn't happened and in a recent post somewhere here I mentioned few. Personally, I think it's probably some "marketing genius" who thinks they will sell more of the expensive devices if they restrict it. Or that they will sell less books overall.

Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure we won't see OD on the Clara HD. Unless someone can find that "marketing genius" and convince them otherwise.
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