Originally Posted by rhadin
I have the Nook Tablet (not the HD, but the original) and am very pleased with it. But I think the arguments run in two divergent streams.
First is the group of buyers who want a tablet tablet, that is a tablet that lets them do anything and everything that a tablet computer can do plus act as an ebook reading device. This group wants more and better apps, video, and other digital media, in addition to ebooks.
The second group, which is the group to which I belong, doesn't care about anything but being able to read ebooks conveniently and want an inexpensive but good tablet that permits it. Perhaps on the rare occasion a member of this group would watch Netflix or download an app.
B&N doesn't know which group to cater to and thus satisfies neither group with its hardware. But from what I have read, the Nook HD does the same things as the Kindle Fire. The difference is that the KF offers more apps and videos. I raise this because I find it odd that people want more "freedom" with fromthe Nook Tablets than they do from the KF.
This is a problem that current B&N management has no clue how to resolve.
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