Originally Posted by stonetools
Well, its one thing if you've priced the hardware so as to sell it at a profit. Then you've made your money, no matter what.
It's another thing if you've sold your hardware so as to enable content sales. Then you are screwed if the buyer takes your hardware , hacks it, and goes off to buy stuff from your competitor. Unfortunately, this is what happened to B&N.
As far as I can see, B&N got no benefit whatsoever from being open to rooting. Amazon has no doubt observed this and will take action accordingly. Regardless of their public statements, they will:
* block rooters if they can
* tolerate them where they must
* focus on their strategy (which is to build up their ecosystem, price aggressively , and do great customer service)
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