We'll never know exactly how things happened, who was "to blame" or if anyone was. I've seen this happen FROM THE INSIDE, and I can tell you that reliable information -- predicting even the NEAR future, is often impossible, even high up in a company. You usually see phases of renewed enthusiasm as it winds down, but ultimately, when the money runs out, there is just no way to keep going.

If they could have stayed in business why would they have decided not to? If they couldn't, anyone's expectation that they do, just to continue supporting past buyers is a little unreasonable isn't it? I mean, are we suggesting everyone on staff is obligated to mortgage their homes to keep a company going that made products the market didn't validate? If every high tech start-up was forced to perpetuate even after it clearly failed, you'd see very little venture capital floating around because each venture would in effect be a huge anchor of debt.

As for the SDK, I hope one surfaces, but I doubt one will OFFICIALLY. If it was developed at Entourage, it's a corporate asset that has some value. If it was acquired, it is licensed and cannot be given away. I don't know exactly how the eInk panel is integrated into the unit and Android, but it seems likely that people will be forced to abandon eInk to move forward with Android, or leave their units alone. If the eInk panel is useless, I would think any number of lower-priced tablets would be better.

Users who want to move forward with Android will buy newer tablets with more memory, more resolution, faster processors... It would be nice to get Market and the other Google apps working on the eDGe though.