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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
I get that. I also think that most people will look at it an go "It is a tablet that is restrictd. Hey, I can buy a similar tablet, for a similar price, and its not restricted" and buy another product. Or buy the Nook Color, figure out it is restricted when they get home and try to download apps, and return it.
The only way to avoid that is to hope that people are doing their electronics shopping at BN and not Best Buy. Because if I am at Best Buy looking at e-readers and I see a Nook Color I am going to go "Tablet." If I decide I want a tablet, I am going to go to the aisle that sells tablets and take a look there. Then I am going to see tablets with more functionality at about the same price and buy one of those.
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this is what I don't understand, just because it's color LCD why does it automatically make it a "restricted" tablet but if it's eink it's not an issue.
When I see the Nook color I say "Oooh an LCD based ereader". Not a "Well can it start my car" tablet.
The Nook Color is NOT going after the tablet " I want my Apps, my emails, my everything, my Hulu etc" crowd. That is Samsung's job
BN is taking the ereader world and bringing the advantages LCD tech can provide tha eink just can not at this time.
It's an ereader, that allows the animation, the features, such as touching a word you don't understand having options with it. LCD does bring on a whole new level of "what you can do " with an ereader that eink just simply can not. It just can't.
Again this is not going after the iPad or even the Samsung Galaxy S Tab. This going after
1. People who reading on an LCD does not bother them
2. Parents with young children
3. People who are frustrated with the limations of eink for PDF's
4. Comic and Magna readers
5. Magazines and Newspapers
6. Students for text books, color maps etc.
Speaking of children, it has live interaction books that kids can touch and their responses, it has a "Read to Me" feature, that has an acutal voice and not that creepy 1980's computer voice on the Kindle. I mean seriously that whole text to speach on the Kindle is an absolute joke. I have GPS's that are older than the first kindle that have more natural sounding voices.
This fits alot of voids for people who don't want to pay over $500 on an iPad especially when all they want is highly featured e-reader.