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Is Nook dying as an app market?
Barnes and Nobles announced that they will stop production of Nook tablets.
And will only produce their black and white e-readers.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2348839/Barnes--Noble-stop-Nook-tablet-production-close-20-stores.html
And will only produce their black and white e-readers.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2348839/Barnes--Noble-stop-Nook-tablet-production-close-20-stores.html
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More stats & graphs from the WSJ.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324637504578567283575391380.html
(I wouldn't personally bother making stuff for Nook - not when considering that Microsoft *and* Pearson have invested in Nook. Writing's on the wall for indie content.)
Why would anyone by Mac over PC? :-\"
At least in my point of view,mac offers a very different experience from pc.
Something that you can not experience just by having PC from GUI to xCode all the way to other cool things.
mac offers culture,fame,a cool personality,lots of its own functions.
On other hand , Nook?
Nook is not Unique enough,not much of culture or history behind it.(as Amazon is a celebrity)
Almost same screen resolution.
They must of offered something very valuable to customer that kindle or android user could not get any where else .they have enough money to hire couple of creative guys to come up with ideas.but they tried to play it extremely safe.
PC and mac are legends.
kindle and Google are legends too.
Nook,they have not slayed a dragon yet.
personally if it was me I would just make Nook comes
in very bright and different colors,and try to focus on mostly awesome packaging.
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I hope they will make a come back somehow.
Agreed that any additional income is welcome, but I am not sure how that works for you, but the irritating fact is that the income is queued up till it reaches a threshold, then they release it, the Bank sending the transfer deducts a Fee, then the bank receiving converts that into the local currency and then deducts a fee. These fees are approximately $25 each and the Currency exchange loses you approximately another $20-$25 per $1000 transaction. So you have already lost $50 on every transaction plus the exchange rate difference (Australian dollar was running high so far). That is approximately 85 sales of a $0.99 app on the app store taken away by the Banking institutions of the already FAT corporations that bank with them.
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well,I have to say they were very picky through the submission process that could turn off lots of developers,I live in Canada,so exchange rate did not bother me as much. What I liked the uploading process.
As for responding to my email,I contacted their help desk directly to get an answer.
I found the email in some random remote location of their site.
But if they come back they have to be more inviting to lots of developer,as from what I understand Samsung and window mobile try to promote their platforms with contest and big prizes.
And they seem to be extremely welcoming to developers.