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Originally Posted by JJoyce
The issue here is Spring Design is alleging that the combination of features that makes up the Alex would have been impossible for B&N to select/implement without the information Spring Design provided.
Incidentally, my feeling about that theory has been reinforced by an allegation made in B&N's response to the complaint that Spring Design is using the suit to attempt to pressure B&N to agree to a content deal for Alex. B&N claims that Spring executives contacted them after the suit was filed, offering to resolve it if B&N agreed to the deal.
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Which is an odd claim for them to make. It isn't like the area of "How the heck do you interact with a slow eInk screen in a way that doesn't suck?" is something nobody has been thinking about. Because everyone has been trying to make eInk more palatable, the odds of two people coming to a same or similar idea is non-zero. Of course, the details are always hidden in the specific implementation anyways, which is what the courts care about, so I could just be off base here.
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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
I'm not doing any pot/kettle... just observing from the sidelines.
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The Kindle launch was its own ugly little monster. Kit that had horrible battery life for no apparent reason (4 days with the wireless off), shipping delays and line jumping due to what shipping type you picked (I remember the mess that was with people trying to figure out what it all meant), and the sheer lack of information on any of it. I just wanted to try to steer the thread away from going down that rabbit hole, although I probably failed miserably at this point when I started making the comparisons myself.
The comment like the one you made earlier in the thread, and in other nook threads in the nook forum have been fairly negative, and yeah, the nook launch is about on par with the Kindle launch. Just a couple different problems at this point with the same results. While it probably isn't your intent, the attitude the comes off from your posts in the nook forum isn't exactly what I'd call constructive. At the very least, we only have armchair knowledge of the problems that led to this particular fiasco, and making a general insult (based on assumptions we don't have proof of, i.e. that B&N walked into this fully aware of the fallout that would follow) at the company doesn't really help anyone except those who want to vent. It certainly doesn't fix the problems B&N now faces or get anyone their devices faster.