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Originally Posted by Last_of_the_PEs
The decision to run their own "store" was arrogant and stupid, and has caused us to jump through lots of unsuccessful hoops to get Market, and scavenge for apps that should take seconds to download, but at least Entourage paid the price for their arrogance.
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I'm not sure you understand why we never had access to the official Android Market, because it had nothing to do with Entourage and whether or not they had their own store.
At the time, Google was very clear about the fact that they did not intend tablets to use the market and did not intend to grant tablets access. As it turned out, SlideMe and other alternative markets ended up being much better sources of apps than the Entourage store, but I don't believe building an app store was really what they cared about. If I recall correctly, they didn't even have one (store for apps, not books) for a long time. But probably, when it became clear that people needed apps (and Google just wasn't going to allow it) and a non-techie way to get apps would be necessary to sell the device to the general public, they tried to put one together.
Be mad at Entourage all you want, as long as it's for accurate reasons.
