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Originally Posted by rhadin
Nate, I think when you do reviews (which, BTW, I always enjoy reading), I think you should give two opinions: one based on what it is that you want and one that would more neatly fit with what the common folk are looking for.
Most people who will buy the Nook Tablet are not looking for that broad open experience you want. What you want is a $500 tablet for $200 and no $200 tablet will every wholly measure up.
OTOH, I would expect to be walled in to B&N if I am buying a Nook device, just as I would expect to be walled in by Amazon were I buying an Amazon device. I whould choose to buy the Nook Tablet because I want to buy my reading material at B&N and am happy to have B&N guide my access to Netflix. If I want to be wall-free, I wouldn't buy either the Kindle or the Nook, I'd look at the Xoom or Asus.
Anyway, while the Nook Tablet fails to meet your openness needs at $250, it more than meets the average B&N consumer's needs, thus the need for two review conclusions.
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Nope. I never said I wanted the experience found on a $500 tablet. I have used many tablets ranging from $100 to $600 and they were all open, to varying degrees. If the NT had fallen somewhere in that range i would accept it. Instead it fell far outside what I expected from a tablet.
And you're wrong on the KF. It's not walled in like the NT.
Rich, while you're right about the usefulness of 2 conclusions, I feel that with this particular device the one deciding detail on whether to buy it is the fact it's so closed. That's why i focused my review on just that one aspect.
And there are so many NT reviews on the WWW that I think a general review wouldn't be as useful as focusing my energy on just the one review.