Both the Nook Tablet from Barnes and Noble and the Kindle Fire from Amazon have hit the shelves and the battle of the cheap tablet PCs have began in earnest. there were plenty of reports, reviews, and tablet COMPUTER comparison articles circulating around the web with regard to the Nook and Fire, and a couple of things have surfaced that can sway consumers from one table to the other "or vice versa.
Choice versus. Dispensing Machine
William Lynch, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of Barnes and Noble, has referred to Amazon's Kindle Fire as a "vending machine" to the online ecommerce giant's services. This "Choice vs. Locked into Amazon's ecology" theme was the same tune Claudia Romanini, director of developer relations at B&N, was singing in an interview with Fast Company. According to Romanini, the Nook Tablet already has Netflix, Hulu, and Pandora loaded into the machine giving their users options as to where they can get their content. The implication is that Amazon doesn't offer the same choice.
Most tablet Computer comparison reports and independant researchers have quietly expressed some misunderstanding over this advertising strategy. The fact is, the Kindle Fire has these apps available too "just not installed into the machine.
Content Lockdown
When speaking of openness, reports have surfaced that both companies have taken some measures to make sure that their potential clients purchase content from the particular app stores. Barnes and Noble utilised the main stream storage and expandable memory slot as a key selling point, though been reported recently that only 12GB of the Nook Tablet's 16GB memory may be employed for user content. And out of that 12GB, only 1GB can actually be used for content purchased from sources other than B&N. If you choose to make use of the external memory for storing your content, you may very well run into major issues too , since B&N apparently used a locked bootloader to hopefully prevent hacking.
Amazon, on the other hand, has a limited 8GB internal memory with no memory slots. This could have been done to steer its users into streaming content from the store. Also, the Kindle Fire has a pre-installed Kindle app for reading ebooks, and reputedly, other programmes and ebookstore are available from the Amazon Appstore, but you will not be seeing them in the Kindle Fire (absolutely). Rival ebookstores are observable if you view the appstore from your PC, although not if you're perusing from your Kindle Fire.
Tablet Computer comparison wars are still on, and it appears that though both B&N and Amazon have made it absolutely obvious that their tablet Computers will not be so open for 3rd party content, whilst they are still major tablet contenders for this imminent holiday season. Who'll actually emerge as the winner? Will price really prevail over specs? We'll see in the next couple of months.
Choice versus. Dispensing Machine
William Lynch, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of Barnes and Noble, has referred to Amazon's Kindle Fire as a "vending machine" to the online ecommerce giant's services. This "Choice vs. Locked into Amazon's ecology" theme was the same tune Claudia Romanini, director of developer relations at B&N, was singing in an interview with Fast Company. According to Romanini, the Nook Tablet already has Netflix, Hulu, and Pandora loaded into the machine giving their users options as to where they can get their content. The implication is that Amazon doesn't offer the same choice.
Most tablet Computer comparison reports and independant researchers have quietly expressed some misunderstanding over this advertising strategy. The fact is, the Kindle Fire has these apps available too "just not installed into the machine.
Content Lockdown
When speaking of openness, reports have surfaced that both companies have taken some measures to make sure that their potential clients purchase content from the particular app stores. Barnes and Noble utilised the main stream storage and expandable memory slot as a key selling point, though been reported recently that only 12GB of the Nook Tablet's 16GB memory may be employed for user content. And out of that 12GB, only 1GB can actually be used for content purchased from sources other than B&N. If you choose to make use of the external memory for storing your content, you may very well run into major issues too , since B&N apparently used a locked bootloader to hopefully prevent hacking.
Amazon, on the other hand, has a limited 8GB internal memory with no memory slots. This could have been done to steer its users into streaming content from the store. Also, the Kindle Fire has a pre-installed Kindle app for reading ebooks, and reputedly, other programmes and ebookstore are available from the Amazon Appstore, but you will not be seeing them in the Kindle Fire (absolutely). Rival ebookstores are observable if you view the appstore from your PC, although not if you're perusing from your Kindle Fire.
Tablet Computer comparison wars are still on, and it appears that though both B&N and Amazon have made it absolutely obvious that their tablet Computers will not be so open for 3rd party content, whilst they are still major tablet contenders for this imminent holiday season. Who'll actually emerge as the winner? Will price really prevail over specs? We'll see in the next couple of months.
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