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Originally Posted by OtterBooks
Hopefully they'll release a new Nook Color and it will do well. boswd is right: the competition will be beneficial to everyone, and bankruptcy would be a sad event for many workers.
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And consumers.
Even Kindle owners don't want this Kindle generation to be the last.
Competition is good but I disagree that B&N needs to open up to Google's market. Their survival depends on skimming as much revenue off each gadget sold. Giving up the vig on their app store runs counter to that. There's a reason they run their own appstore (and Amazon, too).
Netflix and Hulu? Maybe. Would it bring $money$? Per-user royalties, maybe?
Vudu, probably.
It is important to remember that the Fire isn't aimed at the NC, per-se; it is aimed at the broader media consumption market. And NC was intended as a color reader first and foremost.
Competition is good but competing just to compete is bad; lots of companies have commited suicide trying to compete in markets they had no business getting into. And trying to match Fire is a losing game. One word says it all: Silk. There are maybe 4 companies on the planet that can do a Silk browser. Amazon and Microsoft for sure (they've done it) Google and Apple, probably. Sony? Maybe, maybe not. B&N? Uh-uh; totally out of their realm.
Try reading this to appreciate what it's taken Amazon to get here:
http://www.businessweek.com/printer/...-09282011.html
Sometimes discretion is the better part of valor. B&N is too close to disaster to bet the company on peripheral hopes.