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Oh, I forgot....the Viewsonic ViewPad 7 ships with the full Android Market.
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I can see that at its Amazon link, but I also notice the specs are significantly different: front and rear facing camera, accelerometer, multi-touch, 3G/sim card, GPS .. the kind of stuff that Google said they wanted in order to approve a device. All of those are hardware-based features, aren't they? (Is multi-touch a hardware improvement, or just a software improvement?) This is much more like a phone at tablet size than the edge is. So, maybe it's not the most apt comparison.
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1.) the manufacturer is unwilling to work with Google to get their devices approved
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I'm not sure there's anything that can be done working with google, given the hardware that we have and google's stated hardware requirements. For newer devices, with a completely different set of hardware specs, yes. (Is that what you meant by "work with google?" -- design a new piece of hardware?)
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2.) the manufacturer is unwilling to allow the open source community to do what is necessary to bring us the market.
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The crunch gear link you provided to the Archos hack (not stock access) is probably the closest direct comparison to what we have. Is it your opinion that if developers had the edge's SDK that they could create something similar for the edge? Archos didn't provide that hack themselves to their community, right? It was the community that created it?