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Originally Posted by sarah11918
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.  |
should be noted that many other tablets still had market at least installed even though you wouldn't be able to access apps. This would have made it much easier(possible even) to get market working on everyone's eDGe. I'm not sure why entourage removed it, and what else they removed in order to get it to not even work when installed separately, but it kinda screwed us in that regard.