Why B&N Nook is failing.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by MGlitch

They fixed it, but even the fix has issues from what I've read. Sideloading is apparently a bit of a headache for Mac users since the version of android used doesn't play well with OS X

They fixed what? The sensitivity of the button?

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

They fixed what? The sensitivity of the button?

I assume the issues with ADE.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

I assume the issues with ADE.

Doh! I guess I should check more than the last two messages...

[MGlitch]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Doh! I guess I should check more than the last two messages...

I should also get in the habit of quoting who I'm answering. I doubt there's anything they can do about the home button, it doesn't seem like it's overly sensitive just poorly placed. I've no idea how the design made it through testing though that presumes they did product testing.

[barryem]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I like to think Xerox's giving away the mouse and GUI concept or Blockbuster refusing to buy Netflix were the dumbest decisions in the history of technology.

Hard to disagree but in both cases it's easy to see why those seemed like good decisions at the time. I can't believe that grayed out text ever looked like a good decision.

Barry

[fjtorres]

Originally Posted by barryem

Hard to disagree but in both cases it's easy to see why those seemed like good decisions at the time. I can't believe that grayed out text ever looked like a good decision.

Barry

Agreed.
Xerox management was taking care of business and their business was printing and copying. PARC was a blue sky outfit and they invented lots of things Xerox had little use for and never bothered to lock up. It was a different time, patent-wise.

Blockbusters is harder to defend but they probably thought that their B&M ubiquity was superior to the three-five day mail delivery cycle. Short term thinking led them to believe quality online video was further off than it really was. Not hard to see when you consider that online rentals first hit the mainstream via gaming consoles (XBOX 360 followed by PS3) rather than PCs. NETFLIX library model was something entirely different from discrete movie rentals and it came later so it likely wasn't discussed at the time. (Of note, shortly after NETFLIX started their subscription service, Microsoft tried to buy them. No longer for sale at any price.)

Hindsight is 20-20 as they say, but B&N doesn't have that defense. Most of their missteps were questionable from day one. Like supporting generic ADEPT on the ereader but not the store. A headscratcher to start with, fatal when they hit decline.

[fjtorres]

Took me a while to dig this one back up:

http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2014...nooks-decline/

Pretty pictures show just how badly run Nook was.

Not sure how long that will stay up since DBW itself looks to be toast; it hasn't been updated since january.

[sydmalicious]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Exactly so. Purchase date and price paid in custom columns, from my email records.

That's an excellent idea! I'll have to try it.

I was a big paper book fan until 2011 when I got my Nook Color. I still buy paperback books (technical materials) but ebooks are my main source for reading.

I stayed dedicated to Nook after the Amazon onslaught but constant missteps made me pause. I got an Android tablet in 2012 and retired my Nook Color. It's still in a drawer.


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