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Old 02-14-2014, 02:15 PM   #36
JAcheson
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
Amazon launched the appstore first, got it established, and then launched the hardware. When Fire came out it already had far more available apps than the Nook appstore ever mustered and a lot of Android phone owners were already vested in the Amazon appstore.

Amazon acted like a content vendor, B&N as a hardware vendor.
(And not a terribly competent one.)
I also saw a whole lot more Kindle Fire ads on TV than I ever saw for the Nook.

Honestly, if someone were to ask me what a "Nook Color" is, at this point I would describe it as "equivalent to the Kindle Fire," because they probably know what that is.
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