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Originally Posted by murraypaul
But, like Apple, without rooting the device you can only buy apps through B&N's app store. And unlike Apple, B&N don't offer competing apps like the Kindle one.
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But you are mixing apples (sorry about the pun) and oranges. Apple promoted the iPad as a tablet COMPUTER not as an ebook reader. The iPad was never promoted as nor intended to be a dedicated ebook device. In contrast, the Nook, Sony, and Kindle are not multifunction computers; they are and have always been promoted as and intended to be devices dedicated to reading ebooks.
The Nook and Sony, in fact, do allow you to buy ebooks from any ebook store other than Apple and Amazon. The difference is only in how you put the ebooks on the device -- download from the their stores or sideload from elsewhere. The Kindle is more closed but even it will let you read ebooks purchased elsewhere.
Apple is a significantly more closed system than any of the others.