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Originally Posted by taosaur
You are the first human being I've encountered who is upset that B&N "joined the Borg" rather than trying to reinvent the wheel on limited resources. They're Android devices, man. Pretending otherwise was a failed marketing move.
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And keeping app-sideloading disabled means it's still critically crippled. Now B&N is pretending it's ... something different. Not sure what. But all NookHD app access is controlled by Google and/or B&N. Smells like Apple to me.
For some people, being part of the Googleborg is not the be all and end-all of portable achievement. The new FW means, for one thing, that the NookHD is not really the family-tab it was meant to be. Under the new firmware, you can't get Flash without Nook Dolphin (yes, I know it's dying; it's also still necessary at a lot of news sites). "Article View" is gone because their old browser is.
Dealkillers? Maybe not for a lot of people, but the switch caused a lot of chaos in our home. Speaking for myself, I got my own $129 HD, a $55 N2A card, and have declined to load Google shovelware which is becoming more of a PITA than its worth.