Only laptops and smartphones survive

wildtoad wrote:
B&N never really knew how to market the Nook against the Kindle or other tablets.

Not true. The hardware of the early Nook Color and Nook Tablet were far superior to the Kindle Fire. B&N made 2 fatal mistakes. The first was they had very few decent apps in their own store. The Nook Tablet was nothing more than a flashy reader with only a few useable apps. The second mistake was that they came out with a software update that locked out the ability to side android load apps. Sales dropped immediately.

Last year they added the ability to use the Google Play store. My Nook HD is excellent and I love the connection to Google Play. Unfortunately by the time they realized their mistakes, many buyers have moved on to other options.

The Phablets (Large screen smart phones) are very popular as you can use them for both. I think they are too big for a phone and too small for browsing the web.

Exactly.