[Nook Color General] Dj-Gutz:
It might be I don't know , but I personally haven't seen micro-USB port get failures ever

Charging can be done with USB-OTG , so...

We all know the reasons why Google is making this move , and it's understandable as I said

It's not the ITunes model , Google & Android is still an open garden and will always be since this is where the world is right now ( if it won't be that way in some point in the future , a different OS will come and overcome it )

Corporates can no longer "control" the mass-public , that's why Google is going along-side the users and try trade-off's to see what is working

And I think the move to non-SD times is a reasonable test , As I won't be bothered as long as I have alternatives

I don't worry about my privacy as ppl most often do , In my pov for example when Ads will be completely personalized and interesting to me - I will finally not try to block them everywhere and actually make use of the platform instead of hating it

As long as Google doesn't store my voice queries with the connection to my name and profile for example

The thing with Google is , that I have faith that they want to find that middle ground been not-enough and too-much - yeah it's a trial and error and we as a public can effect the things we want the most

Going back to the SD card - for me personally it's not worth the price bump / efforts

Yeah I can get your point here , I'm not traveling much so I can't relate but , Airlines are starting to incorporate WiFI on flights now

And a Card Reader/Low Power DOK shouldn't draw much power and give you the time you need for a flight

There are also external battery chargers , if you need more

My point is - There are options , and while we don't like the move because it forces us to figure something out , we need to know as a customer base we can't always get what we want especially when it collides with profit-making

Another point - this will keep encouraging the industry to find better storage and power solutions - so in the long run we defiantly need to ditch some stuff that we care about to keep going forward

Third point - The world is moving to cloud-based services - Yeah now we don't have a stable and cheap data connection everywhere - but in the near future we will and these stuff will give the boost needed

I don't agree , it's nothing compared to IPad/IPhone/Kindle/Nook

IPad/IPhone - we all know the Apple way we hate so much no need to explain

Kindle - VERY Limited UI and features , Amazon only takes care of it's environment they don't care **** about Android as a system

Nook - Same thing as Kindle

Both devices needed ( and still do ) extended developing to keep up with kernel and build versions , and both Amazon and B&N simply don't care

That's why we stuck with 2.6.32 kernel without any foreseeable future that an update to 3.x will come from B&N - it's just not gonna happen

Google haven't gone "walled-garden" , the N7 was rooted and unbricked in a second - that doesn't tell you anything?

From the get-go you get the full Android experience , and the latest sources

It's baffling to me that ppl compare B&N/Amazon stock tablet experience from Google's and don't see the obvious winner here

And that's only out-of-the-box experience , devs will push it way further