[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] SilentStormer:
Hey xda im writing a shortish informative essay for my language arts class. I was womdering if you guys would proofread it over and tell me im a dumbass if i got some of the facts wrong. I hope you guys will enjoy! Its a pleasure to be a part of this awesome community.

Thanks a bunch

-Silente

Nook Tablet Devs and Kindle Fire Devs working together!

In the fall of 2011, two average-priced E-reader/Tablet crossover devices were launched. The Kindle Fire was made by Amazon in order to enter the tablet realm with the name of their successful e-reader line stamped on its back. The other, the Nook Tablet was Barnes and Nobles second venture into the tablet realm, with their Nook Color that was released in 2010 being the first. These two device's releasing marked a new price range for tablets, with most tablets costing anywhere from $300-$500. The Kindle Fire sold for a low $200 which was a great entry level price for people who had been wanting a tablet but had not been wanting to shell out the bug bucks for it. Whereas the Nook Tablet was $50 more at $250 but boasted a better screen, twice the storage space and an expansion slot where you could put in up to 32GB more. The two were locked in mortal combat and as time went on it became apparent that the Kindle Fire was the consumer favorite, mainly because of its farther developed app store and built-in Amazon media services. The Nook's problem was that Barnes and Noble hand-picked all of the apps for its app store and thus didn't have as wide of a selection. The Kindle Fire went on to actually become a direct competitor to Apple's famed iPad while the Nook continued to simply be an e-reader tablet, and didnt make as big a splash in the world of technology.

Now as tablets go, both were quite a good deal for what you paid for them and thus were prime targets for developers. A good value at some of the lowest prices in the tablet market, whats not tol ike? And so in the first few months after their release, both the tablets started to have strong and vibrant development communities, people who were committed to breaking through the restrictions set up on both of the tablet's by their manufacturers. As time went on the Kindle Fire proved to be the easier development platform because of Barnes and Noble's restrictive bootloader. A piece of software built into the Nook Tablet that wouldn't allow it to run any software except Barnes and Nobles. Eventually though the Nook Tablet's boot loader was cracked and the devs surged through the cracks they had made, working through rooting the Nook and eventually even running a custom made version of a popular android mod CyanogenMod7. Meanwhile though, the Kindle Fire devs had not been idle, they had rooted and modded the Kindle Fire even so far as to get the latest versionofAndroid (Ice Cream Sandwich) somewhat running on the Fire. At this point though, both development communities had hit a brick wall so to speak. To go any further in running Ice Cream Sandwich on either device, they would need to re-build a 3.x kernel from scratch. Both devices came running a 2.x kernel and up until then both of the dev communities had used that to base their mods off of. It was a huge task but both dev communities tackled it valiantly and began to make progress. But then an event came around that would change the course of the 3.x kernel development infinitely for the better!

On March 1st 2012, Hashcode; one of the leading developers from the Kindle Fire development group contacted Team A from the Nook Tablet development, pointing out the similarities in the two devices they coded for and proposed that they begin to help each other by letting the other's team use bits of code in order to better both of their 3.x kernel development projects. Merely 18 minutes later, Fattire; the leading developer for Ice Cream Sandwich on the Nook Tablet side of things, replied back that it would be great if the co-operation started up because they could simply cherry-pick the parts of code that they needed from each other's projects. it would be "Good Times" as Fattire put it. Now as both the teams work doggedly to get the 3.x kernel built, both the groups know that the work load has been lightened a bit and that the two dev communities may become more of friends instead of enemies each defending their turf, or in this case respective tablets. Its all uphill from here,but hopefully the two communities can help each other climb that hill a little faster on both sides.