Why does the Anandtech article say the original Nook was a modest success, didn't they ship over 3 million units? That seems pretty significant to me.
HumblePie
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Guess they just started doing the lending thing as well. Last I checked they didn't have that feature. Oh well. But my library doesn't support Kindle. Also I have a ton of PRC, and LIT books I've bought over the years from fictionwise.com which was bought out by B&N. I an read them easily on my nook, but have to pay to have Amazon convert them to kindle format. One of the reasons I didn't get the kindle.
Apple moves that many iPads in 5 weeks. Amazon just might ship 3M Kindle Fires in the last 6 weeks of this year.
So in the grand scheme of things, NOOK Color is a moderate success.
Library lending on Kindle was announced just last month, it's also handled by OverDrive which does ePub lending. IIRC Kindle lending could cannibalize into ePub lending because a library allocates X copies of a title, going forward to be split between ePub and Kindles. Either queues will get longer or libraries have to fork over more money to "buy" extra copies.
It was 3 million in it's first 5 months. I don't remember them ever releasing any other sales numbers after that.
Are you sure about that? You are free to run any conversion software you want on your PC then copy the books from PC to Kindle via USB cable.
I've never needed to do that since the books I buy from Baen are in mobi format which the Kindle reads without conversion, just copy and go.
It doesn't have 8gb of storage, it has 8gb of on board storage and free cloud storage, which you don't get with the others. That is a big difference. Why do you need all of your media on board with you at all times? You leave most of it on the cloud and transfer it back and forth as needed. I do it all the time. I don't keep everything on my phone. In fact, I forget how much storage I currently have available on my Thunderbolt, but I am nowhere near capacity. I keep what I like on it and have most of my stuff (but not all, haven't gotten around to uploading everything) on the cloud. The best part is that all of your Amazon purchases don't take up any cloud space.
Unless, you know, you use Android -- and oops, right, all these competitors do. Google Music = ginormous free cloud storage.
Ravynmagi
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You get 6GB available (2GB is reserved for the system) and after installing some apps and games, you'll have even less space.
It's plenty of space if you don't mind being 100% dependent on cloud based services. Which seems to be Amazon's intent for being so restrictive with capacity. But not everyone stays in wifi range with their tablets.
Amazon pretty much put a leash on it's tablet. Don't stray too far or all your content goes away.
Bateluer
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Your tablet is wifi, and that can be said for a lot of its features...internet, email, video streaming. That is what the 6bg of usable storage is for. I mean, you can fit a lot of stuff on there and then swap it out when you get back to wifi. It's not like it takes forever to get back to wifi. Streaming transfer times are quick as well.
I just want to say, it is far from a perfect design. It does however look nice and is super cheap. If you want something with better specs, be willing to pay more. The Asus Prime looks good to me, but will cost more. Even the Ipad2 costs way too much doesn't have as much storage as I think it should considering the price. I mean if the Ipad2 wifi was $300 I would own one. That is what it is worth to me. $399 tops. I realize I am alone there...lol. All of these have some sacrifices. I would have loved if the Fire had at least 2x the onboard storage and some cameras, and Flash storage. Actually, I could do without the cameras personally if it saved money.
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This is exactly what I was saying in a recent thread on this topic. Or rather, was trying to say, as no one got it.
Anyone else find it ironic that the most successful Android tablets are and will be the ones that are of the "Android but not Android" variety?
Maybe if that were the actual reason, but it's just a tangental fact. No one would find it funny, ironic, or even out of place if you were to say that the most successful Android tablets were the least expensive ones that still had good build quality.
No, because they are both from the two most popular bookstores. It's the content not the variety of OS that will make the Fire and Nook popular.
Pliablemoose
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I do, but then again, they're able to subsidize the devices through media sales, Apple does something similar with the App Store, both are something other manufacturers are unable to pull off.
JD50
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If you guys think that's ironic, then I'm not sure you actually understand what that means. It's actually quite appropriate that the most popular Android tablets are modified versions of vanilla Android, since that's kinda the point of free and open source software...
Bateluer
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Not really, since those are the ones that had a lower price point, combined with excellent build quality, and had a practical use. There's also the advertising side of it too, so far, I don't think any of the HC tablets got anything close to the Droid Does advertising.
Or when Amazon can just go in and delete your books
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html
Settlement and changes aside its something to keep in mind
Deeko
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Eh, I really think that whole thing was overblown. Its not like they're regularly going around deleting peoples' books - and besides, they were deleting books that were illegally sold to begin with. If someone stole something, sold it to you, and then the police came and took it back, would you be mad at the police, or at the guy who sold you the illegal book?
(for reference, in this analogy, Amazon is not the seller, because the book was sold via Kindle by a 3rd party seller)
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