Here is a good comparision of the upcoming KTab with the NC. I especially like this part:
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The Lack of Openness and Care Bear Worthiness of Both Devices
Unlike companies that are OPEN and GOOD and steal your information while you’re not looking, B&N and Amazon are EVIL and make you pay for stuff before getting it. Part of this means that they take Android (an OS meant to be pure and unsullied by anything other than advertising and data collection) and dirty it with their custom OS layers and the concept of paying for apps and content.
For Nook Color 2 it’s easy to root and run Android and get everything for free.
For Kindle Tablet it’ll be close to impossible.
B&N gets the edge here as hackers and people who were Born to Demand Free will embrace its hackable qualities.
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Spot on, when you read the various Android fan comments here.
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Thoughts
It’s very strange that Amazon would target Nook Color 2 instead of targeting iPad 2. It’s smart because it’s obviously a more reasonable target. However, it’s unlike Amazon to go for a smaller target.
Kindle Tablet vs Nook Color 2 is definitely going to change things. It’s going to make Reading Tablets a bigger force. It’s going to put downward pressure on Tablet prices. It’s going to accelerate the rise of ebooks. It might just sell 8 million non-iPad Tablets in 2011 and show there’s a HUGE market for Tablets of all sorts – especially reasonably priced ones. Kindle Tablet vs Nook Color 2 is going to give rise to two winners and might just cement Kindle Tablet and Nook Color 2 as the 2nd and 3rd most popular Tablets (a scenario that absolutely no one would have dreamt of a few years ago).
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