Installing anything random on a specialized device is too great a risk -- if things stop working, there's usually time and cost to spend before pre-installation status is restored. That destroys the appliance value: to me, it's a reading device. There's no point in in installting anything on it, unless it improved reading, say, by allowing new bok formats. But I think such software would need to come with a guarantee that essentialy said "if our software bricks your device, we pay for it to be restored".
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