moose_tracker wrote:
Kindle already released news of an upcoming glowlight. Showed a prototype, in what looked like a box instead of a protective shell. ... they tried at least to be first announcing they were designing one, before B&N announced theirs was ready to be purchased..
Some corporate espionage afoot?
Remember the rumors of a color Kindle, fully a year (right after the Nook Color was introduced) before they released one?
Same thing here. This is a classic IBM technique ("FUD") from the 1960's, for which they were punished somewhat severely by the DoJ. Apple does the same thing with its "rumors" (aren't we yet up to the iPhone7 and iPad 6???). Unfortunately, sources of rumors are hard to trace, especially with fanboys making them up all the time.
That doesn't surprise me about Amazon. What surprises me is that they sat on their (non-B&N) laurels with elevated prices for their Kindles, until B&N snuck underneath them with better readers, and now they are in a serious hardware catch-up position. They still have a superior market position, but that can change quickly. Notice how much more the Nook is mentioned in the lemming press, after the deal with Microsoft? Like that makes a difference. Microsoft owns a significant part of Facebook, but I don't see Facebook affected externally (except that the buggy web software is still there). I'll bet the same holds true in the B&N case; Microsoft's investment is to make sure they are not left out in the cold in the future.
Nook HD+/16GB (two): B&N 2.1.0 rooted;
Acer Iconia A500: Android 4.0.3 rooted;Nook Color: B&N 1.4.3 rooted; Samsung Galaxy Tab2 (7.0"): Android 4.1.1 rootedNook Touch (two): B&N 1.2.1 rooted; Nook 1stEd/3G (two): B&N 1.7.0 rooted.Customer loyalty is earned, not commanded or deserved, and easily lost.Never suspect intent where incompetence will do.
