Joe Zeff wrote: Apps and system tools, not data. B&N assures me that NOOK will not run apps which didn't come from their app store, and based on experience when I bought mine that's true, or was when I tried it. I've had mine for quite a while, maybe yours will load the Kindle reader from the play store. NOOK handles e-book and PDF quite well, data is data. I wanted the Kindle reader so I could read things I have there. With a life long two books a week habit, I buy where books are on sale, that's not always B&N. With a open Android tablet I can load both Kindle and Nook readers, the Google books apps, etc. Technically you are right, you can buy books anywhere, but you can't read them in some cases, which was my point. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com&gt; "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot

Joe Zeff wrote: Yes, NOOK is limited to B&N approved apps and stuff, and is not a standard Android tablet unless you jailbreak it and install Cyanogenmod Android or similar. Then you can have the NOOK and Kindle readers and buy books as you like. Related hint: Linux manuals don't work well on phones, and only on tablets if some effort was put into getting the table of contents at the front where you can link to chapters. Some do, some don't. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com&gt; "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot

Arthur Dent wrote: I just saw that Win8 has ads built-in to the "free" apps they provide, thus you pay for the software and then pay and pay and pay in time and screen real estate while MSFT just keeps ringing the cash register. At least Android apps usually have a free (with ads) and paid (no ad) version to choose. And their new DRM patent pretty much eliminates any privacy you ever thought you had. That is about the most evil thing I've seen, it make 1984 look respectful by comparison. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com&gt; "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot

On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 12:12 +0000, Arthur Dent wrote: ... Dentist & reading MS ?? U likes pain! ;)

And now they've ejected the guy responsible for foisting Windows 8 on the world.