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Originally Posted by OtterBooks
How so? Where is this information coming from?
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I just don't get the impression anyone is chomping at the bit to get into the guts of this thing. Amazon is innovative about sales and marketing, not hardware and design. Just look at the Kindle--it's a giant, beige pocket calculator circa 1986. The buzz around the Amazon tablet was always that Amazon was making it, not that it was going to be a good tablet. No doubt it will get rooted just on principle, but chances are there won't be much to be gained by doing so, and one would be just as well off using it as-is or getting a different device.
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Originally Posted by OtterBooks
Was the Nook Color intentionally made to be easily rooted/hacked? I guess that worked out for them, if so.
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There's been no statement of intentionality, but unlike a lot of mobile device manufacturers and distributors, B&N put no impediments in place, made no attempts to discourage modifying the software, and made the device as accessible as a desktop PC by making it boot first from external media. They also released a lot more machine than their software was using, running the CPU at 80% of its rated speed and 60% of its potential, with an unused bluetooth radio on board, among other things.
If it was B&N's hope or intention that this configuration would give the device--and their Nook brand in general--legs with the volunteer development community and thereby the tech blogs, slow clap for them, indeed.