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Originally Posted by nekokami
Looks to me like the cleanest solution would be for B&N to buy or license the Alex from Spring and market it as nook++, and claim that had been their intent all along.  |
Well for one I think Alex is a flop if it ever come to see the light of day. Which I seriously doubt if ever will.
This thing is hideous function wise. If you already navigated to the information you wanted on a little (not so little) color screen why would you put it on top instead of reading it there? And if you reading some book on top why you need the quite big unused bottom? This thing is the best example of doing too many things and as a result becoming clunky and awkward. Nook, took good approach of top screen = main screen, bottom is just navigator.
The other way could've worked too I guess, but paying for two screens (money and weight)
and using one?
No synergy between them.
That's why it might not be in the best interest of B&N to buy anything from them.