Regardless of what logo is on the back of the NC, it is not a very good reader or tablet as long as it runs 1.2 stock. I personally hate Apple and Steve Jobs, but I'll deal with them if they produce a product that works for me. The same goes for any other company. So far I'm totally disappointed in the 1.2 stock NC. Firmware 1.2 has slowed down my NC considerably from 1.1, has made the reader app even worse as it now won't remember which page I was on when I closed the app, and it has seriously and adversely affected battery life. I updated to 1.2 not for the apps but because I had hoped that B&N had updated the stock reader app to make it comparable to other readers. Instead B&N made little to no improvements to the NC as a READER!

As far as the apps go, there are too few to be anything but a market place joke. And the NC is way too underpowered and way too hindered by the awful B&N hybrid OS to run them anyway. Everything about the NC screams halfa$$ed!