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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Odd to see the shareholder fixation on dividends: the company is (maybe) six months from Chapter 11 and they want to drain cash from it?  |
Wall Street as a whole tends to be focused only short-term. They want to earn money NOW, the future be damned. So it's not at all surprising to see them want to milk a company to death, that's routine behavior.
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Originally Posted by DBDigital
I never could understand why they went the 30 pin route for the cable.
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As GreenMonkey noted, it's so it can charge quickly. And it does charge very quickly. That part is nice, the cable being only available from B&N isn't.
Personally I knew about the 30pin connector when I bought my Nook HD+s, but I felt the pricing (I bought refurbed ones cheap) and easy CyanogenMod installs made up for it. Didn't really help B&N much, but it was a good deal for me.
I am surprised to see people saying
Nook for PC is no longer available, as it appears to be
downloadable from the US site still. Program still seems to work too, I just ran it and got my latest
Analog & Asimov's Science Fiction issues.