Barnes & Noblehas announcedthat it ’s going to leave manufacturing of its Color tablet bloodline up to third party manufacturers .
In a insistency release , B&N explained that it will make a “ partnership model for manufacturing in the competitive gloss tablet market . ” The move is understandably driven by short financial performance , and the company explain that it will cut back “ risks associated with manufacturing . ”
Interestingly , B&N will continue to develop its simple-minded Touch and Glowlight tocopherol - readers in - family , while its tablet line will be co - denounce with a “ yet to be announced third company manufacturer of consumer electronics production ” .
The news does n’t come as a massive surprise : there have been grumbling about B&Ngiving up on Nooksince the start of the class . And when a interpreter blunder out that the company had “ no plans to discontinue [ its ] award - winning line of NOOK products ” , the subject matter was equivocal enough to virtually guarantee some change to the way the product range was range .
https://gizmodo.com/report-barnes-noble-might-give-up-on-the-nook-updat-5986664
Regardless , the announcement does raise some big questions . Firstly , it ’ll be interesting to see how B&N handles caliber control once manufacturing duties are out of its manus . When someone else is take a leak your product , you really need to be confident they ’re doing a undecomposed job . That said , it might not be too big a fear — timbre ’s never been massively high in the Nook tablet range anyway .
More in the main , though , a lack of self-assurance in the tablet range suggestion at the fact that the Android tab market is proving problematical — even for company that can manufacture reasonable caliber , affordable devices backed by a decent name . If B&N is hedge its bets , it ’ll be interesting to see if others follow suit . [ Business Wire ]
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