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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
Amazon's customer service maybe?
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That was a joke, right? I hope to god that was a joke. I'm an Amazon Vine member and an Amazon Top Reviewer, and as such I have to deal with their CS a lot (like, twice a month, at least) and it's gone from "decent" a few years back to horrendous. The entire Vine program is almost literally staffed by auto-answer emails and one guy who can't speak English fluently enough to parse, understand, and answer complex questions.
(I'm serious, the Viners have started comparing notes and seeing that the email signature is the same guy each time. He's very nice, but the disconnect is a mjor problem - simple things like "can we throw away our ARCs when we're done with them" have been TERRIBLY hard to resolve.)
B&N CS, on the other hand, gets you someone who speaks English and understands your question, but you have to wait on the phone for 2 hours (true story) to get them. Neither companies offer what I consider good service, imho.
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Originally Posted by carld
The trouble with that logic is that the Nook Color isn't a tablet, it's an ereader with some tablet functionality. I don't think rooting counts for anything, to be honest. How many people out of the general public have the interest and ability to root anything? I'd say not very many at all. Even on this forum, with all our technically sophisticated users, many don't understand how rooting works or want to do it.
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You don't have to root at all - you can run CM7 off an SD card. It's easy and it takes 20 minutes.
http://www.anamardoll.com/2011/04/er...e-on-nook.html
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Originally Posted by JeremyR
Amazon sells all sorts of content, not just books. The advantage of having their own tablet is that you could theoretically access all the media you've bought from them, not just books (like a regular Kindle).
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This is true, but all their content is already available on iPads, Galaxy Tabs, and modded Nook Colors, no?
Unless Amazon integrates their services BETTER with their tablet than with the existing tablets out there, this stops being a draw, to my mind. And it's hard to imagine how they'll integrate better or more fully at this point - you can get an Amazon Kindle app on any tablet, an Amazon MP3 app on any tablet, I'm sure they'll have an Amazon Cloud app and an Amazon Video app in due time.
Either they withdraw from the Google Market to make their tablet seem shinier (and lose potential business from people who can't/won't replace their tablet with an Amazon tablet) or they keep their apps on all tablets, in which case their tablet will have to distinguish itself in some other way.
I would think they could make a killing with a competitive pricing scheme, but I felt they fumbled that with the ad-Kindle by not making it the magic $99, so I don't know what the plan is.