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Originally Posted by rhadin
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.
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Right, but the Nook Color falls between the two. It is a tablet, and B&N will have an app store, not just a dedicated reader like the Nook. (Indeed once rooted it seems to be a very good deal for an Android tablet.)