JJZolx;681184 Wrote: 
> Is it necessary to keep the Tablet's OS updated? Can't it just be left
> alone?

A fair question, JJ. That's what I'm doing right now. The only risk is
if any of the content unique to a given tablet (in the case of NT, the
B&N store and Netflix HD) are of interest to the user, and if they make
changes to those features that cause them to stop working if you don't
update the OS. In my case neither of those features is of any import so
I can hold tight. But others' MMV. What will make the difference for me
is if the XDA team can't get 2ndinit or alternate OSes bootable on the
NT. In that case it really does become a dead end. Live with a rooted
1.4.0 or 1.4.1 on it and be left behind as newer and better tablet
environments become available, or sit and wait for someone to root the
next version when it comes out (and so on)? Neither is useful for any
reasonable long haul.

Part of the reason the original Nook did so well was that it was open
enough to keep the XDA community interested in doing stuff with (to)
it. If the limitations I've just described are not eliminated, IME the
developer community will never be as large as it was for the original.


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