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Old 12-06-2014, 07:12 PM   #34
rcentros
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I'm rather fond of my hd+. To be fair, I only bought it used and after b&n had started selling them for cheap. I guess that was the problem.
The main problem with their tablets was that they didn't have much to sell for them. They had (have?) an anemic app and video store and they blocked those who wouldn't root their tablets from the Play Store. So the things (for non-hackers) were about useless. (And they found that the people who read and bought a lot of books, normally used E-Ink eReaders.) Then they opened up the Play Store so folks could buy their subsidized hardware and purchase other people's content (which they were doing anyhow, after rooting the devices). They either didn't have the will or the money to build a marketplace like Amazon had done -- so tablets were kind of a dead end for them.
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