“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.”
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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.