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Originally Posted by boswd
and by the way here is another one of your false statments
"Yes, the Nook Color is locked in order to force people to buy from Barnes and Noble store."
Locked in to Force? Now am I quoting that out of context to. You are saying Barnes and Noble is Locking you in to Force you to buy only their books.
That is what your quote is saying.
and that is False.
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How is that any less false then the numerous times people say the same thing about the Kindle?
Lets call a spade a spade here.
The Kindle is supported by many bookstores outside of Amazon but there are plenty of folks who talk about how the Kindle is locked into a store.
BN choose a different format then the dominate format in the US. BN could have selected Mobi and choosen to support Amazon books but didn't because it did not want to lose business to Amazon. Fair enough.
Yes, BN choose to allow people to download books from Sony when the Nook was released. Big whoop. Sony had fewer books and was more expensive then BN. So are you really choosing a "freeer" format when the only real competition you are allowing you know is weaker? Later, Kobo entered the market and the Nook could read Kobo books because of a decision made by Kobo. And the Kobo store is probably not as good as the BN store.
So BN choose to limit its customers ability to buy books from the largest store available by choosing EPub and tried to make it look pretty by saying "But you can buy whatever EPub books you like" from stores that they knew were inferior to theirs.
And then they release a tablet, and it is a tablet, but lock it so that it cannot connect to Google Apps, effectivly locking its users out of the Amazon market and Goggle market.
You can put all the shiny bows on the package and claim it looks pretty. The second I remove them I see that the package looks identical to Amazons.
Both company made business decisions to benefit themselves. That is what comapnies do. Please be honest in acknowledging that the "freedom" that the Nook offers is barely more then an illusion.