Because the question whether Nook Color owes its success to easy hackability has not been answered.
Then why do you keep coming back to this question?
Diogen.
I think they have a better shot at the TV market (combined with other gadgets) than compete directly with Amazon and Apple...
And personally, I like the existing setup.
Two companies sell their tablets to lock you in. And going by the numbers (units and/or $$$), are quite good at that.
Others...
Kindle marches on
Amazon Kindle Fire impressions jump 19 percent: Millennial
So much for "There is no tablet market. There is only an ipad market!"
Diogen.
Easy to get lost even if only because of the variety of options.
In this respect forums like this are very helpful...
Commonly Used Widgets - xda-developers
Diogen.
He said nothing about the OS.
What the Nexus (?) tablet will run is pure speculation.
But I'd expect it to run something more than just ICS of today.
Maybe ICS+new features, beefed up hardware...
Diogen.
It started with resistive (stylus), then capacitive (touch, multi-touch).
Next will be gestures, i.e. Kinect-like operation of the phone, tablet and TV.
But all that will go away in 5 years or so and replaced with "thoughts", i.e. mind-control...
Even before Honeycomb was shown on Xoom, Google said to be shifting to annual (instead if bi-annual) mobile
OS refresh. It was suppose to start as soon as both branches - phone and tablet - are united, i.e. ICS.
Therefore, they either changed their mind or it will show up in June as beta and...
It looks like Google is satisfied with the role Nexus handsets played in the smartphone market
and plans to introduce something similar with tablets, reference design of sort...
Google chair hints at 'highest quality' tablet in 6 months | Electronista
Could it be the tablet they'll give away...
WSJ gets into the rumor game...
WSJ: Apple working on a TV, new interfaces, myriad content partnerships | The Verge
Have they licensed something from Microsoft or are they looking forward to get sued by them?
Diogen.
That will be settled in short order.
Watch for fine print in newspapers between Xmas and new year...:)
But the publishers (hopefully) understand by now that with the number of smartphone/tablets still in explosive growth territory,
the ebook business is under threat to be Napster-ized. People...
If this ever happens, I'd be really interested how the decision was made.
I really doubt it can happen, at least for the next few years...
According to Isaacson's biography of Jobs, there are essentially two people that could have anything to do with such decision: Cook and Ive.
But Cook is...
Details trickling out...
Sprint reveals it has Carrier IQ on 26 million phones
To summarize:
On the network side
- Sprint has 26M phones bugged
- AT&T just short of 1M
On the manufacturer side
- Samsung installed CIQ on 25M handsets (on network request)
- HTC - on 6.3M
Moto and T-Mo have...
A very to the point one-liner about ICS (from here)
"[ICS] won't do much to convert the Android haters, but it will make the lovers very, very happy."
Diogen.
But it is not going to happen very soon...
Intel delays product after product without competition - The Inquirer
This could be one of the reasons...
Intel reportedly creating new mobile-focused business unit | The Verge
Diogen.