[GTALUG] Fwd: the wicked waste that is closed Android hardware

[Stewart C. Russell]

On 2016-05-14 08:49 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> 
> None of these is e-waste. Even old tablets that will never run anything
> newer than Jellybean can serve real purpose

Except when they're like the Nook Color, running a walled-garden limited
Android version that the vendor has closed down their branded app store:
http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/4/11160942/barnes-noble-nook-app-store-shutting-down-march-15th

Shame; it's a nice bit of hardware.

It would be really nice if these old devices were able to run a proper
Linux, but they rely on boot blobs, so they won't.

 Stewart