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Originally Posted by Anabran
HI can Someone Explain to me the justification for this severely rationing of the total B&N disk space from the user??
I certainly understand the general concept of X amount of total disc space with Y amount already being consumed by the core OS& System files
But why so much space restricted from the user in the B&N Scheme???
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Just speculating here but I've been in more than one product development meeting in my life. Without the huge server farms Amazon has in place, the NT has to have considerably more local storage than the KF to have a competitive advantage. But the bean counters note that the only way to make real money with the NT is to sell the content that is stored locally. Much back and forth among marketing, engineering, and accounting folks. (Think Dilbert.) The result is extensive storage space restricted to B&N content but without the content to sell.
We're all accustomed to thinking of corporations as monolithic entities with a single "vision." In most cases they're anything but. Products emerge as compromises among groups with different agendas and responsibilities. And like Congress, peering into the sausage making process is often discouraging.