Barnes & Noble Announces A New $50 Android Tablet (teleread.org)

Next Friday Barnes & Noble will release a $50 Android tablet, competing against Amazon's tablets with a more-open version of Android. Long-time Slashdot reader Robotech_Master writes: The specs are similar to slightly better than the $50 Fire, but the kicker is this tablet will ship with plain-vanilla Marshmallow Android 6.0 and the Google Play utilities -- unlike the Fire, which limits its users to only those apps Amazon deems suitable to offer. Might this be enough to rescue the ailing Nook brand?
If you truly care about your app ecosystem, this would at least save you the trouble of having to root your tablet just to install apps from the Google Play Store.

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To little to late

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Amazon tying their well developed services to their tablet makes it a well developed media content device. For example I can search for music and make playlists all I want with my Prime Membership. It's playing in my shop all day. Being far from stock Android is a feature and I like Alexa. Granted, I can see why it would be useless without Prime. We'll see if BN can pull something off. Stock Android is a tight market.