Because old kindles are about to show up on ebay for like $10-20 - how much do those open alternatives cost? They’ll be useless bricks to a lot of people - some will figure out how to use them in different ways, some will throw them away, and some will try to sell them for dirt cheap.
Why get something just to jail break it when open alternatives exist?
Pocket Book is the most “open” I believe
Kobo is good and has a store
Onyx, exists, though I couldn’t tell you much - they are expensive.
Because old kindles are about to show up on ebay for like $10-20 - how much do those open alternatives cost? They’ll be useless bricks to a lot of people - some will figure out how to use them in different ways, some will throw them away, and some will try to sell them for dirt cheap.