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Originally Posted by crane3
The idea of "jailbreaking" is to add customizing to personalize for the individual or go back to a previous OS version. "PATCHING" is also a form of customizing and/or fixing the OS.
So why is there so much 'patching'? & why are people looking for the patch to display current time while reading; something the Kindle already has. My 'patching' is just with ksm09 for the addition of the koreader; perhaps my KA1 LE problems are related to not enough patches.
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Jailbreaking requiring taking advantage of security flaws in the firmware. Amazon is closing those. So that's not possible with Kindles with new enough firmware.
As for Kobo, patching is something that's not requiring any security holes. Kobo leaves the firmware pretty much open. That's why Calibre can manage eBooks much better with Kobo. All Calibre can do with a Kindle (no jailbrek) is send the book to the storage.
People ask for things because they may be able to be done with Kobo. Where you can't do anything with a Kindle that's not jailbroken and even then what you can do is a lot more limited.