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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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All B&N content including apps is stored in the B&N partition. Some of the book apps can be 100 to 200 MB in size. Some of the interactive magazines can also be 100 to 200 MB in size.
The original NC had 1GB for apps, and 5GB for other B&N content and sideloaded content. After the app store was opened soon people were running out of space to install apps. So B&N needed to enlarge the apps space. To not limit space for other B&N content (that would be bad for business) this meant that B&N content had also to go in the apps space.
That is why the newer NC models and the NT have a large B&N partition for apps and other content. So you will not run out of space if you like apps books or magazines. And a small user partition, because you can add cheap user space with an SD card.
Forced by the complaints about this by people not understanding the very good reason for this partitioning model B&N has chosen to have only a 1.5GB B&N partition on the 8GB NT.
I predict this will prove to be a bad idea, and will lead to complaints (probably by the same people complaining about the large B&N partition
).
The Kindle has only 1GB for apps (I believe apps are allowed to store some of their data outside that partition). On the Amazon board you will find several threads about people running out of apps space.