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For another article, check Global market share held by leading smartphone vendors from 4th quarter 2009 to 4th quarter 2018.
Now if I could figure out what this has to do with the new Nook ereader...
" Figures often beguile me," he wrote, "particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'" -- Mark Twain |
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Originally Posted by DNSB
Which is like comparing apples to oranges (pun intended) since Apple only competes in the high end of the smartphone market while Samsung covers the low, middle and high end markets. Much like comparing raw auto sales numbers between Toyota and Tesla where a comparison of hybrid/EV sales would be a more useful comparison.
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Struggling with the ironies of (a) citing statistics and then invoking Twain to suggest statistics are subject to manipulation, and (b) stating that the Apple sidebar discussion has nothing to do with the Nook (which is fair enough, btw) and then continuing with analogies between Apple and Toyota sales. But by all means, carry on. :-)
As @Zodwallop asked, trying to return to the topic: :-)
To me, as you mentioned on p1 of the thread, Nook hardware has often had the most thoughtful, reader-centric design and features compared with reading-focused devices such as Kindle and Fire. To take a current example off their site, the Galaxy Tab A (7" Nook tablet) is a nice piece of hardware, optimized for reading regular books with a nearly perfect sized screen, and a lot of value at its price point. And they used to have the very nice Samsung Galaxy S2 8" tablet, also optimized for reading. If it weren't for other issues with BN, I'd choose quality devices like these over a Fire, any day. The problem with BN has never been the hardware but their practices about DRM. Which makes it a hassle to purchase their ebooks, decrypt, and use on any device. Lately it sounds like it has gotten worse. They've been doing this for a long time, and this fact kept me from ever buying a Nook, even though I often admired their hardware and features. All this, plus their more recent, acute financial problems, have gotten me to the point I wouldn't consider one of their devices, despite the nice hardware.