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Android makes sense for a phone or tablet. It's a lazy way for a maker to produce a dedicated eink reader as a more standard Linux makes more sense. The reasons for android:
1) The VM for the Apps, which are essentially really Java.
2) The Android GUI
3) The Google Playstore.
4) Almost no expertise required in house.
Items 1 & 2 were why Google bought in Android rather than using Linux.
Sony's switch to Android from Linux did nothing to save their eReader and was likely political, not engineering based. The T1 was buggier than the earlier PRS350. I've not looked at the time line of that vs their Sony Ericsson Android phones.
Sony also switched TVs from their own GUI on Linux to Android TV, which is inferior, possibly simply for the data harvesting to Google, Samba and themselves.
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