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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice
I wouldn't go back to a Kobo/Kindle. They are just too limited. Apps are a huge improvement even if takes a little more fiddling to get them working well.
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They do what they are meant to do, let you find and read books.
Your complaint is like someone with a DVD or BluRay player that it doesn't do more than play audio or video complaining it doesn't have apps. In that sense, smart Android TVs are often awkward to use the built in Satellite & Terrestrial tuners and use as a monitor for DVD/BD. The Android TV is badly done kludge designed by someone only testing it with streaming services, Android Apps and sitting at a desk instead of normal viewing distances. Dumb TV plus laptop/phone/tablet is better.
Of course Android isn't finished. At Version 8.x, file management, printing, windowing, rotation, keyboards, privacy and other things are worse than OSes I've used nearly 30 years ago and certainly 20 years ago. Progress is glacial and erratic. Features come and go and are half baked.
I've used about every desktop OS since CP/M and many mobile systems since before they had phones built in. Psion, Palm, Win CE, played with Newton. Symbian (which had sever GUIs and the 60 was worst), iOS 6 and custom ones in our lab based on Debian. NT since 1994, UNIX since 1986, Linux since 1998. OS/2, Atari, Gem, Amiga, Two versions of Trolltech's QT GUI on Debian before Nokia bought them. Google is more concerned with capturing what you do and who you know than a decent version of Android. They bought it in and that always results in poor development.