View Single Post
danramos's Avatar
Posts: 4,672 | Thanked: 5,455 times | Joined on Jul 2008 @ Springfield, MA, USA
#2644
Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt View Post
Very, very cool.

I wonder why more companies don't open hardware spec/drivers/etc up! The 'geek' demographic will have a field day with the tech, create new innovative ideas, and hey, they're not going to buy the latest device anyway. I doubt it would hurt business in the slightest. Just look at the nook colour -- altough I don't have hard numbers, I'm betting that many bought the device just to hack it. Had it been hacker friendly from B&N, they might have sold a few ebooks as well!
If they'd been smart, they would have sponsored a Nook Color Android distribution community and opened their own Nook app store so they could charge a percentage of the app sales like Amazon and Google, except you KNOW those Nook apps would be better suited to the Nook Color's design (higher resolution, denser dot-pitch and ONLY a home button)--so there would be an advantage to the Nook app store.
__________________
Nokia's slogan shouldn't be the pedo-palmgrabbing image with the slogan, "Connecting People"... It should be one hand open pleadingly with another hand giving the middle finger and the more apt slogan, "Potential Unrealized." --DR
 

The Following User Says Thank You to danramos For This Useful Post: