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

[Evan Leibovitch]

FWIW, My only deal-breaker requirement on android is access to Google Play.
That eliminates some promising equipment (ie the Kindle android-ish
bargains) but is a long-term defensive strategy.


On 15 May 2016 at 15:42, Stewart C. Russell <scruss at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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