Interview with KSL Producer

[Derwin]

Well, I just got off the phone with a producer with the KSL Broadcast Group in Salt Lake City. He said he was working on a feature for their newsradio service, about whether or not the Nook needs antivirus software. He was hoping to get a sound-bite from a Club Nook representative, as a Nook enthusiast would have a working knowledge of tablet.

So, I think I gave him the sound bite he needed, but I made sure he knew that I was not a "Nook Expert".... only a Nook Enthusiast! lol

Here's basically what I told him (thanks to DVDCatalyst for the help)....

...of course any device is subjective to malware and virii, however, I do not believe that for closed-market devices such as the NOOK, antimalware software is required.

Because the NOOK devices are served with applications by Barnes & Noble's own Appstore, where apps go through a lengthy test-process before they are provided to its users, chances are minimal for bad applications to pass through. Unlike Google Play, and similar as Apple's Appstore, developers have to go through a similar lengthy process in order to be accepted to create applications that will run on the device. With Google Play, anyone with $25 can create whatever they want, and publish it without fear of rejection. A lack of quality control is both the Play Store's greatest power and its greatest weakness.


However, part of the popularity of the NOOK devices is the ease of which they can be modified to run a stock Android version, which does not have the restrictions of the original NOOK's operating system. By breaking the NOOK free from its Barnes and Noble chains, its users are of course subjective to whatever is available in the, uncontrolled, Google Play market, and as a result are more subjective to whaver malware it might have in some of its applications.

This interview should be on the air tomorrow in Salt Lake City, Utah. I'll post a link to it tomorrow.

I mentioned ClubNOOK a lot in the interview, so hopefully we'll get some air-time!

Derwin

[Derwin]

The broadcast of my interview was postponed today, and I was told by the producer that it would air sometime next week.

I'll keep you updated on when the broadcast will take place.

[vegasbailey]

So, has there been an issue with NOOK devices getting viruses? That's so funny, Derwin, I immediately recognized the KSL call letters! (I lived in UT for 13 years, but I'm not "from" UT, if you know what I mean!)
Looking forward to the posted interview from the NOOK expert, I mean, enthusiast!