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Originally Posted by AzB
According to someone on another forum who claims to work at B&N in the electronics dept, (take that for what it is  ) he said that the upgrade will not allow access to the marketplace, although there will be a few more reader oriented apps available.
Obviously, we won't know until it gets here, but it seems that B&N is taking the control freak approach (ala Apple) and will never market the Nook as a real tablet. My personal opinion is that it seems they're looking to get a lock on the reader market by making their reader better and keeping it proprietary for maximum profit down the road. Again, it is my opinion that this is a mistake. It's a big gamble on their part.
Az |
I wouldn't call it a big gamble. It's more like their only choice. They can't realisitically expect to compete with the likes of Samsung, Dell, HP, etc, etc on a long term basis. Or even through the end of this year. Their only chance is to is to offer a different experience than the major manufacturers and capitalize on that.
Even then, their future is questionable. They are going to have to rely on their bookstore and good reading applications to survive. In my opinion anyway.