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Originally Posted by OtterBooks
The NC is a personal computing device.
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No matter how many times you say it, clicking heels or otherwise, the NC's in the market it's in, and as such it competes with the Kindle. I have my NC because I saw an ad for the KSO and started looking at reading devices again. The custom Android ROMs sold me, but iPad, iPod Touch, Xoom et al were not on the table. When people see me using the NC, they don't ask, "Is that some kind of iPod?" or, "Is that some kind of Droid?"
Instead they ask, "Is that a Kindle?"
I understand that B&N is marketing a tablet (however unusually configured) as an e-reader, but they're doing a good job of it. Even as an informed consumer, the fact that it was optimized for reading (hardware-wise: I knew before I got it that I'd be ditching the OS) was a major selling point.