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Old 12-17-2009, 03:04 PM   #21
jcar302
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Originally Posted by stangri View Post
Not to trash nookdevs (the guys are doing and awesome job, I just wish they shared it quicker), but as everybody on this forum who is in the software/web industry can attest -- no update ever comes on weekend. Most companies don't do updates on Friday either, as there's nobody on the weekend to pull the plug if something goes wrong.

And occasionally things do go wrong -- at one of the companies I worked for I remember once devs had to roll-back the problematic update to make it to the release party and we've had the release party before the release actually went live.
Good point, and as a nokia user i should know that updates never come on weekends.

On a bright note, looks like they already hacked facebook and twitter onto the nook.
Would seem that the nook is going to be a hackers dream just like the iphone.
That adds to a device's popularity for sure.
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