Barnes & Noble Inc. has achieved a serious milestone, plus in very short order. Consumers have downloaded applications to use week-old Nook Apps mobile app store tens of thousands of times. The top part five paid apps are Angry Birds, Drawing Pad, Solitaire, Aces Jewel Hunt and Astraware Mahjong. The very best five free apps are Fliq Calendar, Fliq Notes, Pulse, Nook Word of the Day and Fliq Tasks.
"Our recent software update to Nook Color delivered the most-requested tablet features by our customers, such as power to shop for and download high-quality apps. Reaching spanning a million app downloads inside of a week ever since the launch of app searching for all Nook Color customers exceeded expectations, and it's a fantastic milestone for your developers, publishing partners, and more importantly for the rapidly expanding Nook Color member list," says William Lynch, CEO.The bookseller wouldn't respond to questions concerning the quantity of Nook Color devices and paid apps sold.
Barnes & Noble launched the app store included in the recent Nook Color software upgrade. The upgrade makes the Nook Color Reader Tablet a more viable competitor with higher-end pc tablets such as iPad from Apple Inc.Such as, the Nook Color costs $249 and includes Wi-Fi access. Principle
ipad 2 Cables, which is included with Wi-Fi, costs $499. The Nook Color weighs just just one pound and carries a 7.0-inch screen. The iPad 2 weighs 1.33 pounds but contains a significantly larger, 9.7-inch screen. The Nook Color offers eight gigabytes of built-in storage although
ipad 2 speaker offers up to 32 gigabytes.The iPad features Apple's dual-core chip so that laptop to work with great speed and efficiency. Barnes & Noble does not promote what sort of chip it uses and did not respond to a obtain information. Plus the Nook device's battery comes in at eight hours although iPad hits 10 hours. Overall, the
ipad cases is a more robust device using a larger screen and access to a lot more apps than the Nook, however the Nook offers many similar features for half the purchase price.
"I would characterize the Nook Color as a mild challenger to the iPad; its main appeal should be to book and magazine readers," says Neil Strother, practice director at ABI Research. "The price difference up against the iPad is clearly an issue in their favor. However for an increasingly robust tablet experience, the iPad continues to a much better choice. However, for book and magazine readers trying to low cost, the Nook Color is sensible."
Forrester Research Inc. says in 2015 29.4 million U.S. consumers will own a passionate e-reader and 82.A million will own a tablet. It classifies the Nook Color just as one e-reader, and says the Nook Color as well as the iPad are equipped for two different kinds of consumers.
"The Nook Color is usually an e-reader/tablet hybrid: It's focused mainly on reading, but offers other apps for media consumption, games and productivity. For many consumers, the Nook is the tablet needed, and the $249 selling price allows Barnes & Noble to utilize the rest of a mass market than Apple does while using iPad," says Sarah Rotman-Epps, senior analyst, consumer product strategy, at Forrester. "Depending about how you define a tablet, you may the Nook Color is really a stronger competitor to your iPad than other Android tablets like the Motorola Xoom, Samsung Galaxy Tab and Dell Streak given it curates around a convincing scenario reading, media and e-mail. And it also includes a channel other iPad competitors would not have the Barnes & Noble store."
On the flip side, she adds, the iPad's larger screen, stronger processor and wider number of apps interests consumers who wants to do more which has a tablet.
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