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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I disagree here. Using both stores' fifty dollar cheapie tablets as a comparison, I can say that the Nook tablet is just an Android tablet with B&N's launcher installed. It comes with the Play Store installed and you can change the launcher if you like.
The Fire tablet runs Fire OS, a modified version of Android. You have to hack it to install the Play Store and you can't change the launcher.
Sideloading is allowed on both, as far as I know, though with the Play Store, sideloading doesn't matter much to me.
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Context, context...
We're talking historical mistakes.
Past tense. Circa 2012, not 2017...
Back when B&N was spending time and effort trying to create an app store to squeeze every last penny out of buyers. Only developers never bit. And eventually they gave up.
B&N no longer makes tablets, anyway. They just rebrand a generic that already comes with standard android. That is not the strategy that cost them tens of millions in write downs on perfectly fine hardware.
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http://the-digital-reader.com/2013/0...ket-share-down
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What's even worse is that B&N also mentions that they took back $21 million in
"channel partner returns" and also had to pay those partners another $15 million
in promotional allowances. There's also $59 million of additional inventory
charges for stock B&N bought but could not sell, so it seems the crack I made a
couple days ago about B&N's after-Christmas clearance sales wasn't a joke; it's
true.
Not only did B&N have to accept back something like 50 to 100 thousand unsold
units, they also had to pay for the privilege of their partners not selling
them. And they still have to do something about the 200 to 300 thousand unsold
units they already had on hand. Ouch.
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Five years back, both Amazon and B&N tried to copy Apple's iPad app store strategy with proprietary Android derivative tablets. Amazon pulled it off. B&N didn't. Because Amazon already had a viable android appstore *before* launching the tablets and they had music and video stores. And because they allowed sideloading for those apps not in their store. Back then it mattered.