“When Amazon unveiled its first tablet, the Kindle Fire, in September, most tech experts and analysts predicted it would be the first real challenger to Apple’s iPad,” Lucas Shaw reports for Reuters.
“Barnes & Noble has invited journalists and analysts to a news conference in New York November 7, where everyone expects the company to unveil the Nook Tablet,” Shaw reports. “The tablet is expected to be a lot like the Nook Color Reader, though one would expect there to be some more features.”
Shaw reports, “Like the Kindle Fire, this tablet seems to be reusing a popular brand name – Nook – and will have a seven-inch screen.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Ascribing “first real iPad challenger” status to glorified e-readers with tiny screens just 45% of iPad’s and no apps of which to speak does nothing more than shine a klieg light upon the complete, total, and utter failure of the iPad wannabe makers.
Unveil your 7″ nook? Sounds obscene.
well, MDN’s scorn is too broad. there is a “cheap basic tablet” market. something you’d get for the kids to keep them quiet in the back seat – better than a Gameboy. tablets that hotels will provide to guests. really, any temporary or low-priority purpose.
and it won’t be long before there are almost-disposable $99 tablets like the Fire or Nook for this low-end market.
stupid analysts will hype their growing “market share” as their numbers proliferate. but of course if they measured the market by $ sales volume instead …
Apple has made one real mistake: there would be a strong market for a larger iPod touch – say 5.5″ @ $299. it would be great for games and really good for casual use in a lot of situations.
The iPod touch is perfect. If you go any bigger, it becomes a device that is too big to always carry around. Plus that price is already covered by the 32 gig. I do see your point as a gammer, but in my opinion, I don’t think it’s a mistake to not make something in between the current iPod touch and iPad.
MDN:”…does nothing more than shine a klieg light upon the complete, total, and utter failure of the iPad wannabe makers.”
Where does Barnes & Noble even come close to claiming to be making or wanting to make an iPad wannabe. In my mind, they and Amazon are both playing to their strengths since they both have an ecosystem to back up their readers and now tablets. It was Reuters who wrote the headline.
They don’t claim to be producing iPad killers. Journalists, analysts, and here YOU, MDN, are claiming this by association.
I see quite the market for well-made tablets of this ilk that work and expand on the existing infrastructure of this type of company. If all I wanted to do was what these tablets claim to do (if they do it reasonably well and are built reasonably well) and I had no need to tie into Apple’s ecosystem, then these are excellent for the market.
And I am as much of an Apple fanboy as most.
Quit ragging on anyone who makes a tablet assuming its makers are intending it to be iPad killers. Sheeeeeeesh!
We are commenting on the first line Lucas Shaw wrote for his Reuters report: “When Amazon unveiled its first tablet, the Kindle Fire, in September, most tech experts and analysts predicted it would be the first real challenger to Apple’s iPad.”
It’s sad that MDN has to waste their time bludgeoning the stupid with the blatantly obvious.
Painfully obvious to everyone not calling themselves “GregoriusM.”
yeah, but the article – and your headline – is about the Nook, not Reuters’ stupid throwaway first line. and your scorn effectively conflates the Nook with other “iPad wannabe makers” tho it is clear the Nook never really was an iPad wannabe, just a basic reader/tab.
why don’t we wait and see what B&N actually says THEMSELVES this week before dumping on them for what someone else said?
Thank you, Alfie. I agree. However, I must say, although it may be painful to you, that your thoughts are… ahem… obvious.
‘-)
I repeat… MDN: ”…does nothing more than shine a klieg light upon the complete, total, and utter failure of the iPad wannabe makers.” See my post above to see why I disagree with WHAT I QUOTED. I did not quote the rest of your TAKE and take issue with it.
I didn’t call you on what other companies, journalists, bloggers, analysts, etc. were saying. I called you on what YOU said referring to an article about the Nook by Barnes & Noble that they are “iPad wannabe makers.” It is not in the quote, but you implied it by association as AlfieJr said because it is in an MDN Titled Article referencing one and only one tablet – the Barnes & Noble Nook to be unveiled today (Monday).
Please provide a link to evidence that Barnes & Noble have ever claimed what the Reuter’s writer said about their reader/tablet trying to be an iPad.
Find the evidence and I’ll give you this one.
Hell, if anything I wouldn’t mind seeing a 6 or 7 inch ultra lightweight color-screened tab from Apple. Let’s call it the iBook, geared toward readers and gamers. Price it at $299. Then the iPad 2 drops to $399 after the iPad 3 debuts at $499. It’d be a perfect lineup.
Steve might not have liked the idea of “tweener” tablets, but maybe Tim Cook sees the value (or maybe Steve just wanted to misdirect the competition and it’s been in development the whole time).
Apple will lower prices when it has to and not a moment sooner.
iPad killer!
Tourette’s?….