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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
It isn't very big right now, but there's more than enough content on it to keep me happy.
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What tends to happen to people is that they're satisfied for a while, until they see their friends doing things with their tablets that they would like to do, also. Like play specific games, run specific apps, etc. That's the lesson that Palm (and then HP) learned with WebOS: The size of your app store matters -
a lot. It's not enough to have 50,000 good apps if your competition has 300,000 apps, some of which are good.
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
I don't need the latest high end tablet running a quantum-core Rubidium processor at 3.7 Gazillon Hertz with a super-charged plasma-ion display at a resolution of 7680x4800.
The Nook Color is in the right ballpark to satisfy most users. All Amazon needs to do to a tablet to have a bestseller on their hands is up the specs a bit, lower the price a tad and lock it into their ecosystem.
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I think upping the specs will put them in competition with the unlocked/unimpeded tablets. That's not a great place for them to be.
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Remember, most people aren't tech oriented and they want an inexpensive tablet that will allow them to surf the web, do their email and Facebook, watch videos, play games, and listen to music. They don't care about jailbreaking the device, syncing calendars, displaying PDF's, accessing corporate email accounts, business presentations, 24/7 internet access, etc.
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I can do all that now with a tablet I paid $100 for, and I wouldn't have even had to root it to do it. If Amazon is going for that basic a market, they don't need better specs than the Nook Color. They don't even have to
match the specs for the Nook Color, at that point.