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Barnes & Noble follows Amazon's lead - kills root and sideloading on the Nook Tablet

article published on 23 December, 2011

Barnes & Noble has pushed out an update for their Nook Tablet which breaks root access to the device and disables app sideloading. This is similar to Amazon's recent Kindle Fire update, which also disabled root access. In the case of the Nook Tablet, the changes in the update arguably make more significant changes, but at the same time they are easier to get around for the average user. ... [ read the full article ]

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KillerBug
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_ 		23. December 2011 @ 23:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This all just encourages people to install a whole new rom where they bypass the B&N/Amazon apps that are designed to make money from these devices. What are they thinking?
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dEwMe
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_ 		2. January 2012 @ 15:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Eh like anything else they can't kill anything. Diable temporarily maybe but that's it.

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Just my $0.02,

dEwMe
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