[citation][nom]phendric[/nom]The Nook2Android website makes it very clear that they aren't the developers of the Gingerbread ROM they've put on the card. Instead, they're using the work of the Cyanogen Mod team, which you can download and put on your own blank card for free. Given that you can get a class 6 8GB microSD card for about $13, or a class 10 card for $20 on Newegg, you're basically paying $15 for someone else to load a freely available ROM onto a card.Newegg will allow you to return your card, as will retail outlets like Best Buy. Again, the only thing you're paying for, other than the card itself, is for someone else to do the work of loading CM7 on it.[/citation]
For Best Buy's sake, hopefully all those morons who pay Geek Squad extortion prices to do things like load software onto their laptop or hook HDMI cables between their Blu-Ray player and TV don't read your comment. I imagine the flood of people deciding that they really can work technology all by themselves might bankrupt the technical support industry. India might overnight revert all it's recent economic progress when Dell and everyone else cancels their support contracts because customers can just figure this stuff out for themselves. Heck, the car repair industry, plumbing industry, hospitals, etc.. might just all collapse when people realize they can just do this stuff themselves.
Of course, I'm being sarcastic. I would tell my own grandmothers (may they RIP) to by an Apple before I'd build either one a PC running Windows or Ubuntu, just because I don't want to be their own personal technical support when any little thing goes wrong. Believe it or not, not everyone knows how to install an OS, much less configure that installation to dual-boot to either a vanilla copy of android or the pre-installed Nook version. But, tell one of those people that all they have to do is insert this little card, and then their Nook will work just like their android smartphone, and wham, you'll have a few sales for sure. Yes, I know people who own smartphones who couldn't otherwise tell the difference between Android or iOS. They're still competent enough to get things done, but Rooting, OS, Cyanogen, dual-boot, these terms mean nothing to them.