B&N opens up the Nook with Developer program

Re:B&N opens up the Nook with Developer program by Groxx on Friday April 08, 2011 @12:56AM (#2422509)

So, their color Nook gets an SDK after a few months. And their Eink ones still have nothing. Why no love, B&N?

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Re:B&N opens up the Nook with Developer program by jbigelow on Friday April 08, 2011 @01:26AM (#2422568)

I'd guess it's because it's a completely different architecture, eInk is such a niche use that the engineering resources needed to provide an SDK probably outweighs the development community that would make use of it. The Nook Color on the other hand has a huge development base and the SDK heavy lifting has been done already via the underlying Android platform.

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Re:B&N opens up the Nook with Developer program by Groxx on Friday April 08, 2011 @02:02AM (#2422660)

The E-ink one is Android-based too: http://nookdevs.com/Nook

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Re:B&N opens up the Nook with Developer program by waterlesscloud on Friday April 08, 2011 @01:22AM (#2422560)

The Kindle SDK is still in limited Beta. It's weird how slowly Amazon moves in some areas. Glacial pacing.

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