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Originally Posted by krewskater
It sounds like you didn't read up on the device enough before purchasing it. When you consider the fact that it uses a Wacom digitizer under the e-ink screen you can't really call the stylus "non-standard" unless the standard you are comparing it to is regular touchscreen devices (in which case the comparison makes no sense). USB charging would not have been too hard to integrate, I'm not sure why they didn't do this and I'm not fully up to spec with the eDge's hardware but the DC charger runs 12V/1A and USB outputs 5 V, again they could've made it work and I don't know why they didn't. As for marketplace, I may be wrong because I'm new to the Android scene but when this was originally released Marketplace didn't support tablets (again I could be wrong) and there were some issues between enTourage/Google as far as licensing and fees go, with the influx of new owners from the Woot specials it seems like the dev community is picking up and a custom ROM with market (that doesn't require another account/using an emulator workaround/other droid device) shouldn't be too far off.
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This is completely right. Actually, this seems to have been part of the motivation for Amazon creating its own marketplace, given that Google has been using access to the Market as leverage for punishing people with certain devices. (You can say they didn't want to "dilute the Android brand" with substandard tablets. But it's hard to be nice here - by limiting market access, Google essentially destroyed an assortment of smaller tablet manufacturers who didn't have the money or the bargaining clout to get the Market on their devices).