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Originally Posted by afv011
The sad part is that BN were ahead of the curve with the Nook Color, they caught everybody by surprise by releasing a cheap tablet (by 2010 standards) with decent performance - they tapped a section of the market that nobody else knew was there, it took Amazon about a year to respond. Unfortunately BN did not take advantage of this lead by pushing forward and instead they've now fallen behind everybody else.
Closing their devices so their store was the only source of apps, when apps are the lifeblood of these devices, was also a terrible decision. They reversed course, but by then it was too late.
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At the time, I'm pretty sure getting a device without GPS, camera, etc certified for the Google Market was pretty difficult (almost impossible) due to what Google wanted standard on devices.
Still, they should have / could have swung something by the time the Kindle Fire started coming out (around the time of the Nook Tablet's release).