Actually, literally in this case. I’m guessing it happened last night at midnight. I happened to be using it and noticed that my WiFi was down, but couldn’t understand why. So I shut it off and went to bed shortly thereafter. I awoke this morning to a little notification that the update had been completed.<\/p>\n
I’d been using it since Christmas and fortunately I’d already sideloaded some apps I was most interested in. I’d intended to root it to prevent just this sort of thing, but my complacency undid me in the end.<\/p>\n
For the record, I agree with everyone else saying it’s a bad move. And not just because it affects me personally. It’s a bad business decision because the only content B&N allows out of the box is their own. <\/p>\n
The problem with that approach is people with lots of Amazon content, and there are a lot of them, won’t take the plunge if they can’t access their content. B&N isn’t going to convert those people wholesale under any circumstances. The best they can hope for is to entice potential new customers with a better reader product (and the Tablet is a superior hardware<\/em> device to the Fire) that gives them (the new customer) access to sales they (B&N) otherwise would not get<\/em>. By not giving those potential customers access to their current content, they completely cut themselves off from that segment of the market. It’s a foolish business decision- they are essentially choosing all of nothing, rather than part of something.<\/p>\n I recall reading a comment by B&N’s CEO stating something to the effect that they wanted people to be able to access their content, but only on terms of B&N’s choosing. The exact wrong mindset for the market. The Tablet is not some single-task piece of hardware. It’s a computer and the expectations people have regarding computers are that it’s theirs and they can do what they want with it, including hacking it. The best opportunity for B&N’s apparent current strategy to work is if they had the infrastructure in place to deliver content on a par with Apple or Amazon and the simple fact is they have only 1 piece. That’s why they paired with Netflix and Pandora. But it won’t be enough.<\/p>\n I intend to continue with my Tablet as is for the moment- it may well be that I’ve installed all the additional apps I need making it as functional as I’d like. But still, the whole business definitely rankles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Actually, literally in this case. I’m guessing it happened last night at midnight. I happened to be using it and noticed that my WiFi was down, but couldn’t understand why. So I shut it off and went to bed shortly thereafter. I awoke this morning to a little notification that the update had been completed. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[182],"class_list":["post-2088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","tag-nook-tablet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2089,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions\/2089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}