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A comment on Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion.

Re:Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion by mappu on Thursday May 09, 2013 @04:19AM (#5679352)
> Nook e-readers, meanwhile, do not appear to fall into the discontinuation pile immediately. Rather, they’re projected to have their own gradual, natural decline

How is this anything other than Embrace-Extend-Extinguish? And what does microsoft have to gain from paying $1bn for a company (that's running a loss), and then discontinuing their product?

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Re:Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion by icebraining on Thursday May 09, 2013 @07:12AM (#5679756)
EEE describe embracing standards, extending them with proprietary features and then using those features to drive out the software that implements the actual standard. I don't see how it applies here, even if MS buys the Nook to kill it.
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