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Originally Posted by J. Strnad
I hope it's just an oversight.
On the other hand, B&N keeps acting as if they're #1 in the market, when in actuality they're a distant also-ran to Amazon. They try to tie readers in to their books, their nook, their media, when they should be expanding and being the more-open alternative.
I think it's their ego that makes them think they can get away with exclusivity, when their true strength would lie in the direction of an open standard.
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This kind of blows my mind. Is there a word for saying "I think you're both 100% wrong and 100% right"?
I mean, B&N did launch a color reader tablet well before Amazon, and Kindle Fire is a "me too!" to what B&N did first.
But, yeah... B&N did it first
badly by completely yanking the developers around, delaying the app store, "announcing" the update through the home shopping channel, refusing to implement a lot of fan requests, and generally being as locked down as possible with this new iteration of their tablet. And I agree that hubris and stupidity is hurting their brand intensely.
But... I kind of think Amazon is ALSO hubrisy, you know? There's not really a criticism here against B&N that isn't
also applicable to Amazon. The biggest difference -- to me -- is that the Amazon website is easier to navigate and the reviewing system doesn't suxxor.
