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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
I am not a big Pogue fan, but he doesn't usually play favorites; I think he's just slamming B&N a little hard because he believes they rushed the nook to market. Interest has been high and B&N largely missed the holiday season anyway, so they probably would've been better off spending a few extra months to get it right than release a slow and buggy device.
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What I got from the tone (and title!) of the article is that he's upset that a lot of people waste money over the holidays on crap they don't need - a very non-consumerist statement coming from a tech product reviewer.
I definitely feel his vitriol against the nook is a bit misdirected, but I can understand why he would warn people away from it for this holiday season. And he's right: a lot of the footnotes about the nook do direct hits to the schnazz and glitter of it's feature list. This is why the nook forumites on B&N's website revolted and quite a few of them wrote angry posts and canceled their pre-orders when the footnotes came out of the woodwork, and that was *before* the reviews said it was slow as mud.
I still think he was cruel not to mention that the Kindle had the same birthing problems - because his review is definitely going to hurt B&N's bottom line, and ability to put out a V2 nook.