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Originally Posted by Tony1988
Yeah I agree. I'm not really getting all this disappointment with the partition thing. Aren't people pretty much locked in Amazon's ecosystem as well without doing anything with the unit besides buying books????? So I dont see the problem. I could me missing something though ...
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There are lots of places to buy books to read on a Kindle without being locked into Amazon's ecosystem and the devices storage is all available for either type of book (Amazon purchase or sideload from another seller).
I'm sure the partition thing makes no difference, or means little, to most of B&N's potential Nook buyers, but a lot of what you might see expressed on MR isn't going to be indicative of the general market and even on a forum like MR you'll likely see opinions split.
For myself, if I was in the market for a device I'd probably give the Nook a pass due to the partition as I like to have all of my books on my device and I couldn't do that with the new Nook (at least not out of the box). I still wouldn't hesitate to recommend a Nook to someone that asked and was looking at a new device depending on how they described their needs, but I know plenty of folks too who would simply consider the device "crap" and not recommend it because of the partitioned space. These are the kind of folks who are the family members that always get asked for what to buy advice so...
Hopefully B&N will leave the ADB access the way it is (IIRC it was the same/similar on the last device?), but probably won't ever fully trust that they will after they retroactively took away my ability to easily sideload apps on the HD+ with a firmware "upgrade" years ago.