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Originally Posted by stonetools
The problem I see with B & N's approach as I see it is that it's not really clear that they achieved their their major goal, which is to sell more B & N stuff. The hackers who bought the NCs seem to take pride in saying that the first thing they did was to install the Kindle app!
Still, B & N may be playing the long game. I don't know that the Android developer community has given back much to B &N as a result of this, but maybe it will benefit them in the end. Amazon is likely to think B&N took the wrong approach by making the NC too open, and from a business POV, they may be right.
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Yes. Seems to me the attraction of the nook color is geeks getting something extra for their dollars, like a batch of CPUs that overclock really well. Doesn't necessarily help you with the market overall, and it's not the kind of success you can or want to repeat.