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Originally Posted by Quoth
That makes as much sense as a DVD player having apps. Little more sense than a fridge or toaster.
An ereader is a single use appliance. It's phones, Tablets, netbooks, chromebooks, laptops etc that should be easy to install to outside of a store. Sideloading is a term that should be boycotted as Google now suggests it's evil.
Google is locking down Android like iOS. MacOS and Win11 are drifting to walled gardens too.
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Plenty of reasons. We unfortunately live in a world with DRM including on content for reading. There's apps and things for newspapers, books, comics, magazines, etc. sometimes for purchase or subscription that only work in an app or maybe a really well supported full featured web browser. Things that would also be nice to read on an eReader.
Plus you can use apps to add additional format support (e.g., DjVu) or features.