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I think they are just having supply problems. I have a couple on NCs on order for friends and they were on backorder when I first ordered them. The message from B&N then was "sorry we will ship the order when we can (about January the 28th)" then I got an email on January the 28th saying "sorry for reasons out of our control with the supplier, we will not be able to process this order till the 15th of Feb".
Sounds more like B&N expected sales to drop off after Christmas and didn't place enough on order with their supplier and sales have not dropped off as much as they expected. These things happen.
If they wanted to make major changes to the OS to stop hacking they would just do it in a software upgrade, and not cut their own sales. Remember, people will buy other readers if these are not available and B&N would not want to miss any sales. I bet the number of people rooting their NC is probably only 1 or 2 % of the total sales of the device. Don't use the type of person that hangs out on these forums as a guide on who is buying these things. Many owners would not even know about rooting.
But then people just love conspiracies .. so let me add my own... The CIA wants to place a tracking device in all NCs so they can then use the screen to control our minds for the alien takeover in 2012.
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