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Originally Posted by pl001
I much prefer B&N's solution to a proprietary cable like what Apple requires. Not sure what there is to complain about, USB standards are what they which is no fault of B&N and they provide you with the "proper" charger when you buy it.
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Many, many 3rd parties can sell you an Apple iPod cable (I assume that's what you are referring to) for a couple of bucks. I have been unable to find a 3rd party that sells a B&N charging cable or A/C adapter that will charge at the higher speed - every 3rd party adapter that I've found that claims compatibility actually has the standard micro-usb plug, which appears to be too short to trigger high-speed charging on the NC. (I could be wrong about that - I haven't actually dismantled my NC to see why they have a longer plug than the standard specifies.)
The problem is that they took an industry standard cell-phone connector and they modified it in a non-standard way so that it does not work with standard equipment. For example, I've also discovered that you can't use the B&N cable to charge a cell-phone - B&N's connector is too long to fit into a standard micro-usb port, which means that on a trip I have to carry 2 chargers and 2 data cables instead of just one of each.
Pretending to be industry standard while actually being no such thing is considerably worse than simply using a proprietary connector from the beginning.