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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey
The weird thing is, as a tech geek, I think the Nook HD+ and the Nook HD are both very good tablets.
And personally I vastly prefer my Nook ST with glowlight over the wife's Kindle Paperwhite.
The Nook HD+, especially, at $120-$150, has to be the best bang/buck large tablet. Hi-rez screen, decent CPU/RAM, nice hardware. And unlike the other the other cheap competitor, the Kindle Fires, they have the Google Play Store.
All I can figure is that they're being drowned by Amazon's dominance of the ebook landscape.
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Personally, I found the build quality (gaps between frame and housing) of Nook HD a disaster. Nook HD+ is okay, but nothing special. In direct comparison I very much prefer my both Kindle Fire HDs. But of course all those bargain tablets quality-wise can't compete with iPad or Surface Pro and the likes.
So I think, B&N struggles on both ends: On the bargain side from Google and Amazon, both available globally (you only get Nooks in Europa via direct order from the US = potential problems with warranty and such) and on the high end from Apple, Microsoft and the likes...
I really don't get, why in a global market some players still focus on a single market (albeit the US of course are a huge market, but still only maybe 1/3 of the potential).